WordPress Blog Pagination Not Working

Question

I'm still stuck on this issue..

The pagination on my WordPress blog is not working - http://www.example.com/news

When you click a different page number it updates the URL (and page title) correctly but it does not show different posts.

Ive tried:

• Disabling all plug-ins
• Changing the permalink structure
• Changing the number of blog posts displayed in Settings>Reading
• Changing http://www.example.com/recall-news to a different path to avoid conflicting with a post category named "news"

Nothing has worked for me.

I've seen many solutions for a custom query, but I'm using the posts page that you set in Settings>Reading>Posts Page so I did not write any code to display the posts on this page.

• What WordPress file do I modify to fix the blog pagination in this case? I'm guessing I can add something to functions.php, but I haven't found a solution yet.

UPDATE: I have not found the solution yet. I know I can do it by writing my own query but I want to stick with the default WP blog.

Answer 1

I have played with the "posts pages" too but I'm getting no result.

Only working solution for me was a custome query in combination with the Page-Navi Plugin.

In my template i have the following code:

    <?php
    $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
    $args = array(
        'post_type'         => 'post',
        'orderby'           => 'date',
        'order'             => 'DESC',
        'post_status'       => 'publish',
        'posts_per_page'    => 5,
        'paged'             => $paged,
    );
    $q = new WP_Query( $args );

    if ( $q->have_posts() ) {
        $displaylist = '<div class="list-group">';

        while ( $q->have_posts() ) {
            $q->the_post();

            // build up your entry

            unset( $displayTag );
        }

        $displaylist .= '</div>';

        echo( $displaylist );

        wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $q ) );

        wp_reset_postdata();
    }
?>

With the post_per_page i manage the entries per site. In while loop i build up the entries that should be showed.

Answer 2

Check your WP loop in the category.php file (aka archive.php). It must contain the following:

if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();

and finished with:

endwhile; endif;