Older / New Entries Not Working

Cannot see the code but are you using wp_query() ?

If so have you added the paged?

$wp_query->query('showposts=5'.'&paged='.$paged);

HTH

David

<script src=”https://pastebin.com/embed_js.php?i=1PqEAC2B”></script&gt;

Hopefully this shows the code. I used backticks last time.

I added what you mentioned to my query posts, but I am still not sure if I put it in the right place.

Sorry – I never used pastebin before. This is a link to the code.

https://pastebin.com/xHTqKMzC

This is an old post but it might help sorting out the paging.

HTH

David

Thanks the article helped me better grasp the concept, but I am still uncertain what I am doing wrong or rather what I should be doing with my code for older/newer entries.

There is just simply something that is not clicking for me when it comes down the blog navigation. I am having problems with previous and next post navigation too.

If anyone knows of other tutorials or good places to start that offer more of a step-by-step comprehensive process I would appreciate it.

If you read the linked article you are missing the correct navigation call!

<div class="navigation">
  <div class="alignleft"><?php previous_posts_link('? Previous') ?></div>
  <div class="alignright"><?php next_posts_link('More ?') ?></div>
</div>

Also if you want page numbers [1] 2 3 instead of << Prev next >> have a look at the plugin wp-page-navi

As you are using a query then you need to read this for wp-page-navi, it has more different paging code.

The other bit I would add for page navi is a test to see if the function exists.

<?php if( function_exists('wp_pagenavi') ) : ?>
   <?php wp_pagenavi(); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<div class="navigation">
  <div class="alignleft"><?php previous_posts_link('? Previous') ?></div>
  <div class="alignright"><?php next_posts_link('Next ?') ?></div>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

If you want another example then open the loop.php file in the twenty ten theme and find the navigation blocks

<?php /* Display navigation to next/previous pages when applicable */ ?>
<?php if ( $wp_query->max_num_pages > 1 ) : ?>
	<div id="nav-above" class="navigation">
		<div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link( __( '<span class="meta-nav">←</span> Older posts', 'twentyten' ) ); ?></div>
		<div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link( __( 'Newer posts <span class="meta-nav">→</span>', 'twentyten' ) ); ?></div>
	</div><!-- #nav-above -->
<?php endif; ?>

Then open style.php and copy the styles you want!

HTH

David

the query line seems a bit broken:

<?php query_posts ("posts_per_page=5 'showposts=5'.'&paged='.$paged"); ?>

try:

<?php query_posts ('posts_per_page=5&paged='.get_query_var('paged')); ?>

or, alternatively, try:

<?php global $query_string; query_posts ($query_string . "&posts_per_page=5"); ?>

Thanks so much David and alchymyth,

Alchymyth second suggestion worked for the older and newer entries problem.

David thanks so much for linking me to relevant information. I am going to be working on the wp-page-navi next, as well as the previous and next post navigation. I did read the article, but it was over my head at first.

Thanks for your help.