Question

I’m struggling a theme that I got, the theme uses query_posts() and pagination used to work. Now pagination is not working on this page, and it keeps on showing posts from the first page on the second. Meaning, the url shows page/2 but I keep on seeing the first posts of the category, i.e. the first 4 on every page.

Here is the code used to get the posts:

global $current_category;

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
global $query_string;

$args = "";
if ($current_category['post_type'] == "product") {          
    $args=array(
        'showposts' => 4,
        'paged' => $paged,
        'post_type' => 'product'
    );
} else {
    $args=array(
        'showposts' => 4,
        'category_name' => $current_category['name'],
        'paged' => $paged
    );
}
query_posts($args);

And here’s the loop:

if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
    <outputs code here>
endwhile;
else :
    <output no results code here>
endif;

if ( is_home() ) wp_reset_query();

Now, can anybody please point me in the right direction?

//update:

I have already tried this solution as well, so far, I can only tell that the paged variable never gets updated in the query.

//update 2:

This page was done custom, and setting it as the home page via Settings -> Reading inhibits the above behaviour. When leaving it as a normal page, and setting home as recent posts, the pagination works fine.

Answer 1

I have fixed this after some very long research. My code now looks as follows:

global $current_category, $paged;

if ( get_query_var('paged') ) {
    $paged = get_query_var('paged');
} elseif ( get_query_var('page') ) {
    $paged = get_query_var('page');
} else {
    $paged = 1;
}

This just replaces the first 3 lines of the original code in the answer. The rest looks exactly the same.