pagination on custom post wp_query

Answer 1

There are 3 ways that I would suggest for pagination with a custom post wp_query. Unfortunately to this day there isn't a lot of good information about this out there, or at least what is out there is unclear in some cases. Hopefully this helps!

Note, you also did have the wp_reset_postdata() in the wrong place, but even still more is needed to get it to work correctly.

Option 1 - use max_num_pages variable

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        'paged' => $paged, 
        'post_type' => 'cpt_type'
    );
    $cpt_query = new WP_Query($args);
?>

have_posts()) : while ($cpt_query->have_posts()) : $cpt_query->the_post(); ?>

    //Loop Code Here...




    

        
max_num_pages) ?>
 
        
max_num_pages) ?>
    

You'll see above, a slightly different format for previous_posts_link and next_posts_link which now access the max_num_pages variable. Be sure to use your own query variable name when accessing max_num_pages. Notice I use $cpt_query since that is the variable for my query example.

Option 2 - temporarily use the $wp_query variable for your loop query

This is what a lot of folks recommend, but be careful to asign the $wp_query variable to a temp variable and re-assign it or you will run in to all kinds of troubles. Which is why I recommend Option #1. As noted on CSS Tricks, you can do something like this:

query('showposts=6&post_type=news'.'&paged='.$paged); 

  while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); 
?>

  




    
    

Option 3 - use WP-pagenavi plugin

Just as another option what you can do instead is use the WP-pagenavi plugin, and setup your query as in Option #1. But make one change in the code, remove everything within the element and replace with this function, once you have installed the plugin. So you'll end with:

     $cpt_query ) ); ?>