Help paginating a custom query WordPress

Adam Bundy comments:

The beginning of the pagination function?

wjm comments:

nope. right before.

$brandName= $_GET['brandName'];

Adam Bundy comments:

No dice- thanks though WJM.

wjm comments:

please, do at the end of the first script.
print_r($wp_query); and post the results to pastebin.com
that will give me a better idea of what is happening.

Adam Bundy comments:

http://pastebin.com/nj0DTi1E

wjm comments:

sorry, that is impossible to read in one line.
can you view the source code and copy it from there. (not directly from the web browser)

Adam Bundy comments:

Sorry, here is a revised paste:

http://pastebin.com/L22DgKxd

wjm comments:

you are missing the paged parameter in your second call.


change
query_posts( array( 'post__in' => $post_ids , 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num' , 'order' => $order , 'meta_key' => 'Retail_Price' ) )

for
query_posts( array( 'post__in' => $post_ids , 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num' , 'order' => $order , 'meta_key' => 'Retail_Price', 'paged'=> $paged) )

wjm comments:

^^^keeping the changes i have mentioned before.
that is,
global $paged

Adam Bundy comments:

WJM, when I make that change, I get a blank page: http://www.activejunky.com/category/clothing-footwear/mens-clothing/mens-jackets?brandName=The+North+Face&order=DESC

wjm comments:

I think i will need access to the server to test the changes, it's hard to spot what would be the problem over a forum.

Adam Bundy comments:

WJM re-added that paged declaration, and still blank page.

wjm comments:

that shoudlnt break things. you probably have a syntax error.
if i only had access to the server...

wjm comments:

just in case,
there needs to be a ";" after
global $paged

so the right code is
global $paged

wjm comments:

right code is
global $paged;

Adam Bundy comments:

Yes, global $paged; is what I have there. Here is my current query:


<?php
global $paged;

$brandName= $_GET['brandName'];
$order= $_GET['order'];

if (isset($brandName)) {
} else { // brand not set- set to ALL
$brandName = "ALL";
}

if (isset($order)) {
} else { // sort order not set- sort DESC
$order = "DESC";
}

global $wp_query;

if ($brandName=="ALL") {

//echo ('simple case');
$meta_key= "Retail_Price";
$orderby= "meta_value_num";
query_posts('paged='.$paged.'&cat='.$thiscategory.'&meta_key='.$meta_key.'&orderby='.$orderby.'&order='.$order.'');
$total_results = $wp_query->found_posts;


} else {

$post_ids = array();
$meta_key = 'product_brand';
$unordered_posts = get_posts('numberposts=-1&paged='.$paged.'&cat='.$thiscategory.'&meta_key='.$meta_key.'&meta_value='.$brandName);

foreach( $unordered_posts as $unordered_post ) {
$post_ids[]= $unordered_post->ID;
};

query_posts( array( 'post__in' => $post_ids , 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num' , 'order' => $order , 'paged'=> $paged , 'meta_key' => 'Retail_Price' ) )
$total_results = $wp_query->found_posts;

}
?>


wjm comments:

as i said, it was a syntax error
you are missing a ";"
at the end of

query_posts( array( 'post__in' => $post_ids , 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num' , 'order' => $order , 'paged'=> $paged , 'meta_key' => 'Retail_Price' ) )


your code should be
query_posts( array( 'post__in' => $post_ids , 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num' , 'order' => $order , 'paged'=> $paged , 'meta_key' => 'Retail_Price' ) );

wjm comments:

let me give you an advice:
you shouldnt be developing this with no error reporting.
you will spend endless hours trying to figure out whay may be wrong.

Adam Bundy comments:

Ahh- fixed that, which now displays the page, but the result is the same- no pagination appearing, 39 posts shown out of 128. Doesnt that mean that it IS paginating, but the pagination links function just isnt getting whatever it needs to detect that it should show nav?

wjm comments:

if you are passing the "paged" parameter to your query post,
that's all wp_navi needs to display the pagination bar.

Sorry, but that's all the support i can give you so far with no access to the source files.

Adam Bundy comments:

WJM, sorry- Im a designer by trade, a PHP n00b, and just trying to get a few bugs ironed out. I dont actually know how to turn on error reporting.

wjm comments:

simply remove (or comment out) any
error_reporting(0);
or

@ini_set(‘display_errors’, 0);

wjm comments:

Fixed!
let me know if it works as expected.

I installed the wp-pagenavi plugin, removed your pagenavi function from your functions.php file
fixed your functions.php file (you had a whole bunch of blank lines).

disabled caching for testing.
let me know if all works as expected