Question

This may be an easy but I cannot get it figured out. I have searched for hours with no luck on my situation. I need to get pagination to work with my_query

    <?php   
    $count = 0;
    $id_suffix = 1;
    $items_per_row = 4;
    $quality = 90;      
    $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;             
    $wp_query = new WP_Query( array( 'posts_per_page' => '4', 'post_type' => 'portfolio') );
    $grid_class = 'grid_3';
    $desired_width = 220;
    $desired_height = 190;
    $terms = get_terms( 'portfolio_categories' ); 
    $count_terms = count( $terms ); 
?>

//some php code 

<?php while ( $wp_query -> have_posts()) : $wp_query -> the_post(); //query the "portfolio" custom post type for portfolio items ?>


//some more php code 


<?php endwhile;?>
<div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link(__('<span class="meta-nav">&laquo;</span> Older posts', 'thematic')) ?></div>
<div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer posts <span class="meta-nav">&raquo;</span>', 'thematic')) ?></div>
</ul>

I got the pagination to display but when clicking on another page it shows the same portfolio items. Any help would be appreciated.

I got the pagination to show using wp-pagenavi but the same issue with not changing the items.

Answer 1

Thank you @maiorano84 and @s_ha_dum for pointing me in the right direction. I wanted to update this post for anybody that runs into the problem. The problem I was having was making the pagination work on the a static front page. After reading in the codex I figured out my problem.

Instead of $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
I had to use
$paged = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1;

That one little mistake is what kept the pagination to work. so the final code looked like this.

<?php   
    $count = 0;
    $id_suffix = 1;
    $items_per_row = 4;
    $quality = 90;
    $paged = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1;
    $my_query = new WP_Query( array( 
    'posts_per_page' => 8, 
    'post_type' => 'portfolio',
    'paged' => $paged
    ) );
    $grid_class = 'grid_3';
    $desired_width = 220;
    $desired_height = 190;
    $terms = get_terms( 'portfolio_categories' ); 
    $count_terms = count( $terms ); 
?>

//Some php code

<?php while ( $my_query -> have_posts()) : $my_query -> the_post(); //query the "portfolio" custom post type for portfolio items ?>


  (Some more php code)

<?php endwhile;
wp_pagenavi(array( 'query' => $my_query ) );    ?>
</ul><!-- END .portfolio-gallery -->

?>