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cathymacars
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 15,941 PointsBetter way to do multiple loops (because of problem with pagination)?
So, I need to have 3 loops on the home (blog) of this website I'm building, thus I used WP_Query (custom queries). I am having trouble with the pagination (which needs to happen for the 3rd loop). I want a << 1 | 2 | 3 | ... | 7 | 8 | 9 >> type of pagination. I've looked everywhere and tried at least 5 techniques, and the closest I've gotten was this:
<?php
$query1 = new WP_Query( array( 'posts_per_page' => 1 ));
if ( $query1->have_posts() ) : while ( $query1->have_posts() ) : $query1->the_post();
// stuff...
endwhile; wp_reset_query(); wp_reset_postdata(); endif;
?>
<?php
$query2 = new WP_Query( array(
'meta_key' => 'post_views_count',
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
'posts_per_page' => 3
));
if ( $query2->have_posts() ) : while ( $query2->have_posts() ) : $query2->the_post();
// stuff...
endwhile; wp_reset_query(); wp_reset_postdata(); endif;
?>
<?php
$paged = ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
$query3 = new WP_Query( array(
'posts_per_page' => 3,
'offset' => 1,
'paged' => $paged
));
if ( $query3->have_posts() ) : while ( $query3->have_posts() ) : $query3->the_post();
// stuff...
endwhile;
next_posts_link( 'Older posts', $query3->max_num_pages );
previous_posts_link( 'Newer posts', $query3->max_num_pages );
endif;
?>
This results in "Older" & "Newer" links (which don't seem to be working properly), but the numbers aren't there... So, if no one here can help me get this kind of pagination to work with my loops, I am open to suggestions of how to achieve the same result using any other technique for multiple/custom loops.
Help?
1 Answer
Chris Ramacciotti
Treehouse Guest TeacherI might be misunderstanding your specific use case, but would the_posts_pagination function be a quicker route to your solution?
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/the_posts_pagination/
cathymacars
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 15,941 Pointscathymacars
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 15,941 Points@Chris Ramacciotti I've tried it and the pagination appears, but it doesn't seem to work... Kinda, I mean, the url changes from
blog/toblog/page/2/but the same 3 posts are shown in the loop. (I've added 13 filler posts, so it's not for lack of posts). This is how I've tried to implement your suggestion; on the last loop, I've added it like this (replacing what was already there):What am I missing?