next page posts link keeps duplicating

Have a look at your theme’s index.php file and see if it contains a reference to query_posts(). If it does, post that code snippet here. It will need some editing.

hi, here is whats in my home.php which is my index im told.

while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post();

				$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

		<div id="topbanner" class="column span-14">   <!-- start top banner -->
            <div class="pagetitle">
                // the affair
            </div>
        </div>   <!-- end top banner -->
<?php $marker=0; ?>
        <div id="home_content" class="column span-14">   <!-- start home_content -->

            <div id="home_left" class="column span-7 first">   <!-- start home_left -->

            	<?php $catid = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT term_ID FROM $wpdb->terms WHERE name='Asides'"); ?>

				<?php $catid2 = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT term_ID FROM $wpdb->terms WHERE name='Featured'"); ?>

				<?php $the_query = new WP_Query('cat=-' .$catid. '&showposts=10&orderby=post_date&order=desc');

				while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post();

				$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>
 <?php if($marker==0) { $marker=1; ?> <h3 class="mast">The Itinerary For December 2009</h3> <?php ; } ?>
				<div id="latest_post">   <!-- start latest_post -->

					<h3 class="latest_post_title" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>

					<?php if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'latest_home_img', true) ) { ?>

					<div id="latest_post_image">
					<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/latest/<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "latest_home_img", $single = true); ?>" alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>: Latest post" width="470" height="420" /></a>
					</div>

					<?php } ?>

					<p><?php echo strip_tags(get_the_excerpt(), '<a><strong>'); ?></p>

					<div class="latest_post_meta">

						<span class="latest_read_on"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">Continue Reading</a></span>
						<span class="latest_comments"><?php comments_popup_link('Post a comment', 'One comment', '% comments', 'Comments off' ); ?></span>
						<?php $cat = get_the_category(); $cat = $cat[0]; ?>
						<span class="latest_category"><a href="<?php echo get_category_link($cat->cat_ID);?>"><?php echo $cat->cat_name; ?></a></span>
					</div>
				</div>   <!-- end latest_post -->

<div class="navigation">
<?php previous_posts_link(); $do_not_duplicate ?>
<?php next_posts_link(); $do_not_duplicate ?>
				</div>

				<?php endwhile; ?>

            </div>   <!-- end home_left -->

            <div id="home_right" class="column span-7 last">

				<div class="column span-4 first">

					<h3 class="mast">Luggage Pick Up</h3>

					<?php $the_query = new WP_Query('cat=-' .$catid. '&showposts=5&offset=1&orderby=post_date&order=desc');

					while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post();

					$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>

					<div class="home_recent_post">

						<?php if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'thumb_home_img', true) ) { ?>
						<div class="home_recent_thumb">
							<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/thumbs/<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "thumb_home_img", $single = true); ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>
						</div>
						<?php } else { ?>
						<div class="home_recent_thumb">
							<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php
							the_title(); ?>"><?php if (function_exists('the_thumb')) { the_thumb('altappend=recent_&subfolder=recent&width=75&height=75&keepratio=0'); } ?></a>
						</div>
						<?php } ?>

						<div class="home_recent_title" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
							<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
						</div>

						<div class="home_recent_date">
							<?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?>
						</div>

						<div class="home_recent_auth">
							By <?php the_author(); ?>
						</div>

					</div>

					<?php endwhile; ?>

					<?php include('ad_home.php'); ?>

					<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
					        || !dynamic_sidebar('MiddleColumn') ) : ?>

					<div id="side_tag_cloud">

						<h3 class="mast">Browse</h3>

						<?php wp_tag_cloud(''); ?>

            		</div>					

					<?php endif; ?>

            	</div>

                <?php get_sidebar(); ?>         

            </div>

        </div>   <!-- end home_content -->        

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Try replacing:

<?php $the_query = new WP_Query('cat=-' .$catid. '&showposts=10&orderby=post_date&order=desc');

with:

<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$the_query = new WP_Query('cat=-' .$catid. '&showposts=10&orderby=post_date&order=desc&paged='.$paged);

Hi Esmi,

I tried that and it doesn’t work. It still shows exactly the same. Any other ideas about how I can fix this?