Question

I have a custom query like this

posts_per_page=5&category_name=space

and I am getting the results just fine…
But i want to paginate the result, So clicking the “next 5” will show other old 5 posts…

How can I do this?

Help me please

Answer 1

There are two parts to this. First, you need to let the query know that it’s paged:

<?php
    // This sets the page to 1 if the $paged global is empty
    $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

    $wp_query = new WP_Query('posts_per_page=5&category_name=space&paged=' . $paged);
?>

Then you need to add pagination links at the bottom of the current page’s template:

<?php if ($wp_query->max_num_pages > 1): ?>
    <div id="nav-below" class="navigation">
        <div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link('&larr; Older posts'); ?></div>
        <div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer posts &rarr;'); ?></div>
    </div>
<?php endif; ?>