Custom Page Template Help

[creative5designs]

I'm really hoping someone can help me with this - I've tried everything I can think to try and can't seem to find a solution that works anywhere.

I've set up a custom page template to run a custom loop on a client's site but can not get the pagination to work correctly. The code I'm using is

<?php
//* Template Name: Blog
//* Show page content above posts

remove_action ('genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop'); // Remove the standard loop
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_standard_loop', 5 ); // show the editor content

add_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'wpsites_before_blog_widget' );
function wpsites_before_blog_widget() {
if( !is_paged() ) {
genesis_widget_area( 'before-blog', array(
	'before' => '<div class="before-blog widget-area">',
	'after'  => '</div>',
	));
    }    
}

add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'rgc_do_loop' ); // Add custom loop
function rgc_do_loop() {
	
	global $post;
	// arguments, adjust as needed
	$args = wp_parse_args(
		genesis_get_custom_field( 'query_args' ),
		array(

		'post_type'      => 'post',
		'posts_per_page' => 5,
		'post_status'    => 'publish',
		'paged'          => get_query_var( 'paged' )
		 )

	);
	global $wp_query;
	$wp_query = new WP_Query( $args );
	if ( have_posts() ) : 
		while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); 
			echo '<div class="pod">';
				echo '<div class="entry-title"><h1><a href="' . get_permalink() . '"> ' . get_the_title() . ' </a> </h1></div>'; // show the title
				echo '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '" title="' . the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) . '">'; // Original Grid
				
				echo '</a>';
echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "podcast", true);
echo '<div class="podmore"><a class="podmore" href="' . get_permalink() . '">Show Notes</a></div>'; // show notes link
			echo '</div>';
 
		endwhile;
		do_action( 'genesis_after_endwhile' );
	endif;
	wp_reset_query();
}
genesis();

And the output is here: Podcast Page

Everything is displayed correctly, but the pagination is not working past page 2. There should be 4 pages there (currently, this will of course be expanded as they add more posts to the category) The pages do exist, for example page 3 can be found here, but there is not next page link after page 2.

I'm betting this is something simple, but I just can't wrap my head around the issue.

Anyone have any suggestions?

[creative5designs]

Anyone have any ideas on this - or even suggestions as to another way I can achieve this layout for a category template?

I forgot to mention in my previous post that I'm using the Lifestyle Pro theme. Also, if I set the pagination to numerical, it's only showing 2 pages total - even though as mentioned the 3rd & 4th pages do exist when you type in the URLs.

[Brad Dalton]

You don't use a template name for archives. You use the Template File Hierarchy and simply name the file category.php

That may not fix the pagination issue but may prevent other issues.

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[creative5designs]

Thanks Brad. I'm using this as a category page for one of my categories (all other follow the standard layout), not archives.

I actually just found the issue and was coming to mark this as resolved when I saw your response. It turns out that for some reason on of my plug-ins wasn't playing nicely with this page (and others)

Rookie mistake, should have been the first thing I checked.

[Author]

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