giant slayer

I am having the same issue now. Previously, I was getting the php error displaying on the web browser with the error type and the line number it was on, but with the latest wordpress upgrade, I am no longer seeing the php errors on the screen. Now it is just showing a blank page.

This is very discourging. I cannot get the page navigation to work with anything I have tried.

I have tried
$page = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1;
and
$page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
and
$wp_query->set('page','1');
I have put paged argument within the query
query_posts( array('paged'=> $page ,'posts_per_page'=>9,'cat'=>6,'orderby'=>'rand' ) );
All of these set the page number to be 1. They create the nav link to go to the next page which is {https://theviolent.net/recent-works/page/2/} But when the link is clicked, it returns a page not found error.

The codex says for pagination to work, one should set get_query_var( ‘page’);

Pagination Note: You should set get_query_var( ‘page’ ); if you want your query to work with pagination. Since WordPress 3.0.2, you do get_query_var( ‘page’ ) instead of get_query_var( ‘paged’ ). The pagination parameter ‘paged’ for WP_Query() remains the same.

How do I go about doing this?

I found that the archive links do what I want as far as pulling posts from a selected date range and then having the paging and navigation links working correctly.

Does anyone know how to implement this same thing for a custom date range?

Thanks,
–christopher

I appologize for the long code blocks. I am not sure why they did that.

Mac,
If you would like, for your help, I’d love to send you a 5×7 print of one of my fine art pieces. If you would like to browse through my work and pick a piece you like, I will gladly mail it out to you.
You can email the title of the one you want along with your address at cmgdesignstudios[at]theviolent.net

That worked perfectly. Thanks so much for your help. If there is anything I can do in return, please let me know, and I will be glad to do what I can.

Ok, here is what it printed.

IN FILTER: ORDER BY rand()
QUERY:SELECT wp_term_taxonomy.term_id
FROM wp_term_taxonomy
INNER JOIN wp_terms USING (term_id)
WHERE taxonomy = 'category'
AND wp_terms.slug IN ('inspirational')

IN FILTER: ORDER BY rand()
QUERY:SELECT term_taxonomy_id
FROM wp_term_taxonomy
WHERE taxonomy = 'category'
AND term_id IN (69)

IN FILTER: ORDER BY rand()
QUERY:SELECT t.*, tt.*
FROM wp_terms AS t
INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt ON t.term_id = tt.term_id
WHERE tt.taxonomy = 'category'
AND t.slug = 'inspirational' LIMIT 1

IN FILTER: ORDER BY rand()
QUERY: SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp_posts.*
FROM wp_posts  INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id)
WHERE 1=1
AND ( wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id IN (76) )
AND wp_posts.post_type = 'post'
AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish'
OR wp_posts.post_status = 'private')
GROUP BY wp_posts.ID  ORDER BY rand()
DESC LIMIT 0, 9

IN FILTER: ORDER BY rand()
QUERY:SELECT FOUND_ROWS()

It looks like the function got called 9 times, once for each image(post) being displayed.

Here it is.
https://pastebin.com/bLpnZPFm

For my inspirational gallery, this is the query which was printed for page 1.

QUERY:
SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.*
FROM wp_posts
INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships
ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id)
WHERE 1=1 AND
( wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id IN (76) ) AND
wp_posts.post_type = 'post' AND
(wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'private')
GROUP BY wp_posts.ID
ORDER BY RAND() DESC LIMIT 0, 9

It does not appear the rand() function is receiving the seed.

hmmmm….
I tried it and still no success. Here is my code.

// Retrieve consistent random set of posts with pagination
function mam_posts_query($query) {
    global $mam_posts_query;
    if ($mam_posts_query && strpos($query, 'ORDER BY RAND()') !== false) {
       $query = str_replace('ORDER BY RAND()',$mam_posts_query,$query);
    }
    return $query;
}
add_filter('query','mam_posts_query'); 

$seed = gregoriantojd(date('h'),date('m'),date('d'),date('Y'));
global $mam_posts_query;
$mam_posts_query = " ORDER BY rand($seed) "; // Turn on filter
query_posts($query_string . '&orderby=rand');
$mam_posts_query = ''; // Turn off filter

If you visit any of the menu items from my page, you can see that they are still random, but are still re-randomized when visiting 2nd and 3rd pages. Each refresh is also randomizing.

https://theviolent.net/colorstudy-ricepaper

I commented out my original query_posts and used the code you sent.

Here is the link.
https://pastebin.com/6AU62BEq

When I use your query, my category value passed to me from WordPress is lost. It is in the $query_string variable.

One question.
query_posts($query_string . '&orderby=rand');
In my original query, I have my $query_string which has values passed to it from WordPress. How do I add the random from your code and still keep the value in the $query_string?