Index pagination shows every page as page 1

I suspect that the problem is in the parameters to query_posts. You may be missing the ‘paged’ parameter. Since I can’t see your code, this may not be quite right, but I hope it will help:

<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts("paged=$paged");

Of course, you need to keep any other parameters you already have.

Were you able to get this fix? I am having the same issue. sidebar(left) calls the query and single page(right) displays selecttion. however everytime I go to other post on the other pages the sidebar will go back to page1 even though the selected post is on page 2

Hmm, I thought that might be another place with an error by I think my code is correct. I’ve included a longer snippet of code below – including the paged parameter – if you see anything I’ve missed, that would be very helpful.

I’m a bit concerned that, while modifying the page to bits, I removed some </div> somewhere so they’re not matching up – could that be making a difference?

<div id="front-list">	

	<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; 

query_posts("cat=-27,-28&paged=$paged&posts_per_page=5"); ?>

	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>		

	<div class="clearfloat">

	<h3 class=cat_title><?php the_category(', '); ?> &raquo</h3>

	<div class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); 

?></a></div>

	<div class="meta">[<?php the_time('j M Y') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comment', 'One 

Comment', '% Comments');?>]</div>	

	<div class="spoiler">

	<?php	$values = get_post_custom_values("Image");

	if (isset($values[0])) { ?>

      <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); 

?>">

	<img src="<?php echo bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/<?php

$values = get_post_custom_values("Image"); echo $values[0]; ?>&w=150&h=150&zc=1&q=100"

alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" class="left" width="150px" height="150px"  /></a>

      <?php } ?>

	<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

	</div>

	</div>

      <?php endwhile; ?>

	<div class="navigation">

		<?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { wp_pagenavi(); } 

			else { ?>

			<div class="right"><?php next_posts_link('Next Page &raquo;') ?></div>

			<div class="left"><?php previous_posts_link('&laquo; Previous Page') ?></div>

			<?php } ?>

	</div>

	</div>

	</div>	

<?php get_footer(); ?>

is there another query_posts() before tho code that you posted?

is so, try and add a ‘wp_reset_query();’ in your posted code:

<div id="front-list">

  <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
	<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; 

query_posts("cat=-27,-28&paged=$paged&posts_per_page=5"); ?>

	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

AH brilliant! That’s solved the problem, thanks so much alchymyth!

Alchymyth you just became my personal god!