URL conflict between custom post type pagination and individual items

Still haven’t found a solution. Anyone know anything about this issue?

Hey fullofwin,

I was having a similar problem with a custom post type. For me it seems that problem was with my permalinks which were confusing the paging. So going to /page/2 made wordpress look for a post named “page”. I found a great, and small, plugin that fixed the issue, you can grab it from here:

https://barefootdevelopment.blogspot.com/2007/11/fix-for-wordpress-paging-problem.html

Hopefully that solves it for you, good luck!

Thanks Ian – I see what the plugin is doing, but didn’t seem to work for this problem. ??

Maybe could modify it a bit…

I too am having the same problem. Hope someone could help

Here is modified code from the link I sent before that might work for you guys:

function remove_page_from_query_string($query_string)
{
	if ($query_string['name'] == 'page' && isset($query_string['page'])) {
		$post_type = $query_string['post_type'];
		list($delim, $page_index) = split('/', $query_string['page']);
		$query_string = array();
		$query_string['pagename'] = $post_type;
		$query_string['paged'] = $page_index;
	}
	return $query_string;
}

add_filter('request', 'remove_page_from_query_string');

Dropping by to say that this seems to have been fixed (how, is a mystery!). Upgrading to the latest version solved this for me.

Scratch that. It’s not fixed. Will try ianhirschfeld’s second suggestion today and report back.

Got it worked out finally! (I’m working on leliathomas’ site, by the way.)

I messed around with the function you posted, Ian, and worked out that to fix it I needed to make it set $query_string[‘pagename’] to a part of the URL like “portfolio/photography”, rather than the post type.

I’ve done it kind of a hacky way by getting the current URI and grabbing the parts I need from it, so I’m sure there’s a more correct way to do it, and hopefully this doesn’t cause issues on any other pages (doesn’t seem to so far), but this is what I came up with which fixed the problem:

$current_uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$GLOBALS['url_segment'] = explode('/', $current_uri);

function remove_page_from_query_string($query_string)
{
	if ($query_string['name'] == 'page' && isset($query_string['page'])) {
		list($delim, $page_index) = split('/', $query_string['page']);
		$query_string = array();
		$query_string['paged'] = $page_index;
		$query_string['pagename'] = $GLOBALS['url_segment'][1] . '/' . $GLOBALS['url_segment'][2];
	}
	return $query_string;
}

add_filter('request', 'remove_page_from_query_string');

Paging is working now! Thanks for the help!

THANK YOU, ianhirschfeld! Your solution brought me back from the brink of frustration!

In case it is of any worth to anyone I edited ianhirschfeld’s code (above) to work with a permlink structure of /%year%/%category%/%post_name%/%post_id%/ :

function remove_page_from_query_string($query_string)
{
	if ($query_string['name'] == 'page' && isset($query_string['year'])) {
		$post_year = $query_string['year'];
		$page_index = $query_string['p'];
		$page_num = $query_string['p'];
		$cat_name = $query_string['category_name'];
		list($delim, $page_index) = split('/', $query_string['page']);
		$query_string = array();
		$query_string['year'] = $post_year;
		$query_string['category_name'] = $cat_name;
		$query_string['paged'] = $page_num;
	}
	return $query_string;
}

add_filter('request', 'remove_page_from_query_string');

Obviously this is nothing that ianhirschfeld’s example didn’t cover, but something for comparison for PHP-unfamiliar users out there.