Custom category page not paginating properly

Try:

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$my = new WP_Query('category_name=Previous Events&showposts=5&orderby=date&order=DESC&paged=' . $paged)?>

Thanks Esmi,

That fixed the second page with one exception, it only has the “previous page” option on it. However there are 4 or 5 pages in total. I manually entered the url for the subsequent pages and they have the correct posts on them, just no “next page” only “previous page”.

Any ideas on that? Thanks again.

I prefer to use next_posts_link and previous_posts_link instead of posts_nav_link. Have to you tried that approach?

Hi Esmi,

Thanks for the help, but that didn’t work. Here is what I am referring to:

https://aiga.inovat.us/category/previous-events

If you go to the “Older Events” at the bottom it goes to page 2, but you can never get to page 3 or 4…

Here is the code of that page:

<?php get_header();?>
	<div id="content-home">

				<?$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
				$my = new WP_Query('category_name=Previous Events&showposts=5&orderby=date&order=DESC&paged=' . $paged)?>
				<?php if ($my->have_posts()) : ?>
					<div class="events previous">
						<h2><?php if(function_exists('bcn_display')) {bcn_display();}?></h2>
							<div class="holder">

						<?php while ($my->have_posts()) : $my->the_post(); ?>
							<?$more=0?>
							<div class="event">
								<?if (get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), "Little Image", true)):?>
								<div class="holder-img">
									<a href="<?php the_permalink()?>">
										<img src="<?php echo get_meta_image_url(get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), "Little Image", true))?>" width="100" height="100" alt="#" />
										<?if (get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), "Date Small", true)):?>
										<span class="date"><?php echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), "Date Small", true)?></span>
										<?endif;?>
										<span class="b-shadow"><span>&nbsp;</span></span>
									</a>
								</div>
								<?endif;?>

								<div class="text-hold">
									<h3><a href="<?the_permalink()?>"><?the_title()?></a></h3>
									<span class="event-date"><?php echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), "Date Large", true)?> |</span>
									<?the_excerpt()?>
									<span class="links"><a href="<?php the_permalink()?>">Read more</a> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?><?php the_tags(' | Sponsored by: ', ', '); ?> </span>
								</div>
							</div>
							<?endwhile;?>

						</div>
					</div>
				<?endif;?>

				<div class="navigation"><p><?php previous_posts_link('< Newer Events', '0') ?> <?php next_posts_link('Older Events >', 0); ?></p></div>

			</div>
			<?get_sidebar()?>
	</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thanks for any help.

Not sure this is your problem but showposts=5 should probably be posts_per_page=5

See Template_Tags/query_posts#Pagination_Parameters

Tried that, but its still not working.

Any other ideas?

Works just fine for me. Maybe a plugin causing your problem.

I’m using the WordPress Default Theme, no plugins, default permalinks.