Custom Post Types pagination not working WordPress
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The problem is that the prev and/or next link are not showing up on my custom post type template. The pagination shows up well for regular posts. In reading section I have show up the first 2 posts and I have more events.
<strong>In my functions.php</strong>
//-----------register custom post type
register_post_type( 'events',
array(
'labels' => array(
'name' => __( 'Events' ),
'singular_name' => __( 'Event' ),
'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'event'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add New Event'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit Event'),
'new_item' => __('New Event'),
'view_item' => __('View Event'),
),
'public' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'hierarchical' => false,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'rewrite' => 'events',
'query_var' => true,
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'excerpts', 'revisions')
)
);
<strong>In my Template file:</strong>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php $loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'events', 'orderby' => 'date', 'order' => 'ASC', 'paged' => $paged ) ); ?>
<?php if(have_posts()):
?>
loop here
<?php endwhile; ?>
<div id="posts_navigation">
<?php posts_nav_link(' ' , 'newer posts >>' , '<< older posts'); ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Answers (2)
Maor Barazany answers:
First, change
'rewrite' => 'events',
to
'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'events'),
Second - Currently you can't paginate a custom post type without a plugin if you use permalinks.
Only if you use the WP default, you can paginate.
That is a known issue on WP3.0 and 3.0.1, they just didn't create a them hierarchy file for custom posts type, and thus all of these issues.
I think I saw in WP Dev blog that they intend to extend the template hierarchy in WP3.1 to include also file for custom-post-type's archive page, and then it will be simple as having pagination to any other posts archives.
Till 3.1, the [[LINK href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-custom-post-type-archives/"]]Simple Custom Post Type Archives[[/LINK]] just do the job of having this template file hierarchy enabled and doing the correct rewrites that should be done for this to work.
After activating the plugin, create a template file to show your "archive" custom-post-type.
Take the archive.php (or index.php etc) from your theme, duplicate it and rename the file name to <strong>type-events.php</strong>.
Then, in the php file you created, find the loop (the line that starts with
if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();
and just before it add this line:
query_posts('posts_per_page=10&paged='.$paged.'&post_type=events');
Lucian Florian comments:
Thank you Maor!
Michael Fields answers:
This worked for me:
<?php
get_header();
query_posts( array(
'post_type' => 'events',
'orderby' => 'date',
'order' => 'ASC',
'paged' => $paged,
'posts_per_page' => 2
) );
if( have_posts() ) {
while ( have_posts() ) {
the_post();
the_title();
the_content();
}
}
print '<div id="posts_navigation">';
posts_nav_link( ' ' , 'newer posts >>' , '<< older posts' );
print '</div>';
get_footer();
?>
Lucian Florian comments:
The code did the trick but it returned error 404. After adding the plug-in mentioned by Maor yours worked too, but the template got messed up.