Home page with blog template not paginating

[galbaras]

I'm using a minimal child theme with Genesis. My front page is a page called Home, which uses the Blog template. My posts page is unset.

This works great, except for pagination of the main blog archive, which keeps going back to the same list of posts. adding /page/2/ or ?paged=2 to home page URL just shows the home page again.

Please advise.

Thank you,
Gal

http://www.ronitbaras.com/

[Susan]

A static home page will not paginate by default. The recommendation is to set your home page to "display latest posts", and don't use a static home page.

[galbaras]

If I set the home page to display the latest posts, other things don't happen, like Jetpack sharing buttons won't work properly.

The question is what to do to make a static home page paginate. The "Blog" template should be done in a way that takes this into account. Supposedly, that's exactly what it's meant to do - serve as the main blog page.

[galbaras]

OK, I've found the problem and ... (drum roll) ... it's a bug in genesis_do_loop(). There are 2 of them, actually.

Line 30:

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

Should be:

$paged = get_query_var( 'page' ) ? get_query_var( 'page' ) : 1; // "page", not "paged"

Line 38:

'showposts' => genesis_get_option( 'blog_cat_num' ),

Should be:

'posts_per_page' => genesis_get_option( 'blog_cat_num' ), // "showposts" is depracated

If someone from the Genesis team is reading this, an update will be great. In the meantime, I've unhooked genesis_do_loop() and hooked in the correct code, so you can see the code in action on my site.

Best regards,
Gal

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