Paging not working in my wordpress installation

Question

I recently started a blog site and wanted to give it a magazine look. I used Wordpress for my blog and used the Arthemia theme with it. I also changed the permalink structure to point to /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ structure. Now the problem that i have is that the paging has stopped working on my home page. When i click on the next page link i get a 404 error. My /page/2 url does not show the next page. I check on google and found out that it was due to the redirection that is being performed due to the permalink change. The solution given was that i need to skip the url rewriting for the /page/* urls. This is the link to an article which said this http://www.yoursearchadvisor.com/blog/wordpress-next_posts_link-broken/ .

I was not able to follow this article and solve my problem, as i could not find the permanent redirect manager under the settings section as said in this article. Can somebody please guide me how to solve this problem.

I am using the latest Wordpress version and Arthemia theme with it.

I am using IIS 7 for running Wordpress. At least i know from google till now that i need to add some rules in the web.config file. But still no success.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Open your index.php file in your theme.

Replace:

  $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

  query_posts("cat=-27,-28&paged=$page&posts_per_page=5"); ?>

With

$wp_query = new WP_Query query_posts("cat=-27,-28&paged=$paged&posts_per_page=5"); ?>

The problem is the navigation links only work with the variable $wp_query so it has to be used.

Answer 2

I finally found a solution to my problem. Everything was setup correctly and the url-rewriting works fine on Godaddy windows economy account. The solution to my problem was simple. Follow these steps in case someone gets into the same problem.

Go to settings -> reading section

The blog pages show at most option is set to 10 by default. Change it to 5 and save the settings. This should resolve the problem. Paging works fine on my blog now, with permalinks set to /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/.

For a summary:

I use Godaddy windows economy account. Url-rewriting works fine on Godaddy account. The web.config file gets update fine whenever we make a change to the permalink structure. The paging bar on the home page may give a 404 error ( in my case it did ). Fix it using the steps above. I added a post regarding this on my blog too http://techaxe.com/2010/06/14/fix-for-404-error-while-navigating-to-the-next-page-in-wordpress/ . Hope this saves someone's time.

Answer 3

add this to the end of your query:

.'&paged='.$paged