how to make custom query paginate?

Review the “A page of posts” example in the Pages article.

thank you Michael. I tried but … It did not work. I slightly modified the code. I believe that I did not change anything important. The html code for page navigation is there but empty. It is like next_posts_link returns nothing.

I used custom template for that page. It displays two posts. That is correct but the pagination …

if (is_page('audio')) {
  $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
  $post_per_page = 2; // -1 shows all posts
  $do_not_show_stickies = 1; // 0 to show stickies
  $args=array(
	'category_name' => 'blog',
    'orderby' => 'date',
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'paged' => $paged,
    'posts_per_page' => $post_per_page,
    'caller_get_posts' => $do_not_show_stickies,
  );
  $temp = $wp_query;  // assign orginal query to temp variable for later use
  $wp_query = null;
  $wp_query = new WP_Query($args);
	//echo var_dump($wp_query);
  if( have_posts() ) :
		while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>
	    <div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
        <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
        <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>
        <div class="entry">
          <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry ?'); ?>
        </div>
        <p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments ?', '1 Comment ?', '% Comments ?'); ?></p>
      </div>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
    <div class="navigation">
      <div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('? Older Entries') ?></div>
      <div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries ?') ?></div>
    </div>
  <?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
		<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
		<?php get_search_form(); ?>

	<?php endif; 

	$wp_query = $temp;  //reset back to original query
    }

if this code is in a function, try to add
global $post;
before the
if (is_page('audio')) {
line.

@alchymyth: thank you but it didn’t help. The condition is_page(‘audio’) works well because I got displayed what I want on the pages. Only the navigation things are missing …

I am really curious if we can make it work …. Hey WordPress gurus ??

R

just tested on clean installation of WordPress + default theme and it works fine. So it must be something about how I implemented in Thesis. Any idea?

R.

I made it work by inserting global thing …

$temp = $wp_query;  // assign orginal query to temp variable for later use
global $wp_query;
global $post;

Could somebody explain that to me? Why it works with global?

Thank you

R.