WP Query pagination outputs, but page links do not change the query. WordPress

joshmoto comments:

None of these articles use paginate_links function

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/paginate_links/

I'm trying to get some thing like this to work...

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joshmoto comments:

That displays all my posts and no pagination.

1 is just for testing, this will be 20 or something. I've only got 3 posts in the query, so 1 is just to test pagination across 3 pages.

Cesar Contreras comments:

Is that the code you have? I don't see the assignment;
$query = new WP_Query( $args );

your code will look like this...

<?php

$paged = ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) ? absint( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) : 1;

$args = array (
'paged' => $paged,
'post_type' => 'purchase-order',
'posts_per_page' => 1
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );

if ( $query->have_posts() ) : ?>

<?php while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post() ?>

<?=$query->post->post_title?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php
$big = 999999999;
echo paginate_links( array(
'base' => str_replace( $big, '%#%', esc_url( get_pagenum_link( $big ) ) ),
'format' => '?paged=%#%',
'current' => max(1,get_query_var('paged')),
'total' => $query->max_num_pages
) );
?>

<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

<?php else : ?>

<p>Sorry, no results matched your criteria</p>

<?php endif; ?>


joshmoto comments:

Yes well spotted, the most important bit

$query = new WP_Query( $args );

Is in my code

Cesar Contreras comments:

only for testing change 'posts_per_page' => 1 to 'posts_per_page' => 2

joshmoto comments:

This should not affect pagination. I just this in there as and example.

I am basically after pagination_links to work.

Andrea P comments:

yes sorry I realised I missread your situation...

the method seems fine and I used it many times and in many different scenarios.

it seems a problem with the pretty permalinks.. Something is conflicting with them and so wp doesn't read /page/2/ as paged=2

is /suppliers/ a normal single page? could it be conflicting with anything else such as a custom post type slug or a category with same name (if you don't use the prefix /category/)?

when you access /suppliers/page/2 is the url being rewritten or does it stays like that?

is the /page/2 url working in default wp archives?

joshmoto comments:

Thanks Andre for your response.

/suppliers/ is a page that i've created. And i'm using custom php for this page to run my wp-query.

Ah I do have a custom post type suppliers.

Let me check this is not the confiict

joshmoto comments:

Should be no post type conflict...

My supplier post type is called 'purchase-supplier' and the slug is written too.


'rewrite' => [
'slug' => 'supplier',
'with_front' => false,
'feeds' => false,
'pages' => false,
'ep_mask' => EP_PERMALINK,
],


The archive like page i'm creating is by creating a page called suppliers and using a custom php template with my wp-query.

Everything works fine. The loop is working fine.

The URLs are writing ok...

For example if I run http::mysite.com/suppliers/dhfhb - this returns 404
For example if I run http::mysite.com/suppliers/page/2 - this returns my page with query just on page 1

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get_query_var( 'paged' ) just always returns 0.

I've updated permalinks, i'm on multisite too (which shouldn't be issue)

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If I manually get the page number from the url and pass this to $paged, the loop outputs the correct data, but pagination_links function still thinks it's on page one.

Let me check if archive template works.

Andrea P comments:

the rewrite slug "supplier" might be also assuming that then your post type main archive page is the plural /supplier/

then wp sometimes goes mad with these things and in some circumstances would give precedence to the single page, for instance, while other times it will get tricked thinking that it should be the post type archive.

though then it would load the post type archive on page/2/ for instance, but instead it loads your code in the single page...

just to exclude the possiblity, maybe try to change the name of the page to something else and see if it works

joshmoto comments:

You were right with your permalink issue assumptions.

I was using a custom class to dynamically route pages.

https://gist.github.com/joshmoto/3f8831f457ca0526dbc80d97a9b43394

Sacked it off and went with normal pages instead. Works fine.

Thanks