Custom blog page returns 404 on pagination link click

[aschoenbrun]

have been researching this for a while, looking over quite a few stackexchange posts. This seems to be a relatively common problem, but the more common solutions do not seem to work while others seem complicated and are hard to follow. I have a WordPress site using the Genesis framework. I have a static home page and have set up a custom page for the blog. My issue is with pagination. Whether using the WP PageNavi plugin (preferred) or Genesis' native pagination, when I click on the page links I get a 404. Pagination on category pages works fine. Please note: I do have other custom post types used in other parts of the site. I do not need to call them here. I just need the regular "post" type posts.

My site is http://youreffectivemedia.com/ and the blog page is at http://youreffectivemedia.com/blog/ (dont mind the fake tesing posts 🙂 )

Code for custom loop:

// Define custom query parameters
  $args = array(
    'post_type'      => '',
    'posts_per_page' => 10
  );

  // Get current page and append to custom query parameters array
  $args['paged'] = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;

  // Instantiate custom query
  $query = new WP_Query( $args );

  // Pagination fix
  $temp_query = $wp_query;
  $wp_query   = NULL;
  $wp_query   = $query;

  if ( $query->have_posts() ) : while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post();

    echo '<article id="post-' . get_the_ID() . '" ' . get_post_class('BlogPost BlogArticle') . '>';

    include(locate_template('partials/template_part-single_header.php'));

    echo '<a class="ArchiveViewButton" href="' . get_the_permalink() . '"><button>View</button></a>';

    echo '</article>';

  endwhile; endif; wp_reset_postdata();

  wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $query ) );

  // Reset main query object
  $wp_query = NULL;
  $wp_query = $temp_query;

The template part "template_part-single_header" works as it should. I do not think it is of consequence here because it does not involve setting up the loop query.

I did play with the "paged" declaration as well as "pre_get_posts" to no avail.

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.

http://youreffectivemedia.com/blog/

[Victor Font]

It's really hard to say without debugging your code. I would use a plugin like this one https://wordpress.org/plugins/kint-php-debugger/ to view the array content while executing the loop. Also, not sure why you are double assigning $wp_query first to null, then to a value. You may also need to consider moving wp_reset_postdata to the end of the loop. You may be resetting things too early.

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