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Question

I have a custom post type (question) related to a custom taxonomy (support)
In my-theme/taxonomy.php I have this code:
<?php
$taxonomy = get_queried_object()->taxonomy;
if ($taxonomy == 'support')
{
get_template_part('template/support/categories');
exit;
}
wp_safe_redirect(site_url('/'));
exit;
?>
Means I target a specific template file for "support" taxonomy.
In my taxonomy template file I make a custom query:
<?php $current_category = get_term_by('id', get_queried_object()->term_id, 'support'); ?>
<?php $questions = new WP_Query(array(
'post_type' => array('question'),
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => 5,
'posts_per_archive_page' => 5,
'paged' => ((get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1),
'nopaging' => false,
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'support',
'terms' => array($current_category->term_id)
)
),
'orderby' => 'menu_order',
'order' => 'ASC'
)); ?>
<?php if ($questions->have_posts()): ?>
<ul class="list normalize">
<?php while ($questions->have_posts()) : $questions->the_post(); ?>
<li>
<h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>
<div class="nav-previous">
<?php next_posts_link( __('Previous', 'my-theme'); ?>
</div>
<div class="nav-next">
<?php previous_posts_link( __('Next', 'my-theme'); ?>
</div>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
I have about 11 posts, page 1 shows the 5 first posts, but the problem is that no pagination is shown.
Any idea?
Thank you

Answer 1

You can try this pagination plugin
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pagenavi/
And add this code in your template
<?php if (!function_exists('wp-pagenavi')) { wp_pagenavi(); } else { ?>
<div class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('« Older Entries') ?></div>
<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries »') ?></div>
</div><?php } ?>

Answer 2

I tried Your code and with my taxonomy
<?php $questions = new WP_Query(array(
'post_type' => array('studies'),
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => 15,
'paged' => get_query_var('paged'),
'nopaging' => false,
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'studies',
'terms' => 11
)
),
'orderby' => 'menu_order',
'order' => 'ASC'
));
?>
<div class="grid9">
<div class="entry-content">
<?php if ($questions->have_posts()): ?>
<ul class="list normalize">
<?php while ($questions->have_posts()) : $questions->the_post(); ?>
<li>
<h3><?php echo get_the_title(); ?></h3>
</li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php
wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $questions ) );
?>
This works fine ,Don't forget to use wp-pagenavi plugin.

Answer 3

Put this code above the "endif;" and just below the end of while loop.
<div class="nav-previous">
<?php next_posts_link( __('Previous', 'my-theme'); ?>
</div>
<div class="nav-next">
<?php previous_posts_link( __('Next', 'my-theme'); ?>
</div>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
Hope this helps you.

Answer 4

Ussually this works for me:
$big = 999999999; // need an unlikely integer
echo paginate_links( array(
'base' => str_replace( $big, '%#%', esc_url( get_pagenum_link( $big ) ) ),
'format' => '?paged=%#%',
'current' => max( 1, get_query_var('paged') ),
'total' => $questions->max_num_pages
) );
Notice the question variable. :-) After you use this, go to Settings->Permalink and Save twice.
You can find a bigger tutorial here with the same example.