Pagination issue with a custom category template

[studionoobly]

So I have the following code that is the basic backbone of a customised category.php page but I can't get the pagination links to show:

					remove_action ('genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop');
					add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'custom_do_press_loop' );

					function custom_do_press_loop() {

							$args = array(
							'post_type' => 'post',
							'posts_per_page' => 3,
							'orderby' => 'date',
							'order' => 'DSC',
					);

						$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
						if( $loop->have_posts() ):

							while( $loop->have_posts() ): $loop->the_post(); global $post;

							endwhile;

						endif;
					}

					genesis();

I have also tried the following but that gave me a next link that took me to a 404 page and I think it might be deprecated so not using it any more.

					remove_action ('genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop');
					add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'custom_do_press_loop' );

					function custom_do_press_loop() {
							global $paged;
							global $query_args;
							$args = array(
								'post_type' => 'post',
								'post_status' => 'publish',
								'posts_per_page' => '3',
								'cat'	 => 'category_name',
								'orderby'	=> 'post_date',
								'paged' => get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1
					);

						global $wp_query;
						$wp_query = new WP_Query( $args );
						if ( have_posts() ) :

							while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

						endwhile;
							do_action( 'genesis_after_endwhile' );
						endif;

					wp_reset_query();

					}

					genesis();

In the 'Reading Settings' I have 'Posts page' set to nothing and a static front page, there isn't a default category blog page as such on the website. And my 'Permalink Settings' are "/%category%/%postname%/" "Category base" = .

This along with setting URL's to be "www.category-name/sub-category/sub-category-post" is driving me nuts. Any help on this would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

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[Brad Dalton]

Hi

What are you trying to do because the code you posted doesn't output anything and isn't coded correctly.

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[studionoobly]

Hi Brad,

Oh, well that's not a good start. I'm just trying to create a custom category template page for all categories. Within the loop I have my custom html that I need to be different from the standard Genesis fair.

Here is the full code that I'm using just now.

<?php
/**
 * This is Category file.
 *
 * @package  Genesis-Child-Theme
 * @since    1.0.0
 */

/**
 * Genesis custom loop
 */
/** Replace the standard loop with our custom loop */
remove_action ('genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop'); // Remove the standard loop
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'custom_do_press_loop' ); // Add custom loop

function custom_do_press_loop() {
		$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
		$args = array(
		'post_type' => 'post',
		'cat' => 'category_name',
    'posts_per_page' => 3,
		'orderby' => 'date',
		'order' => 'DSC',
		'paged' => $paged
);

echo '<section>';
	/*
	Overwrite $wp_query with our new query.
	The only reason we're doing this is so the pagination functions work,
	since they use $wp_query. If pagination wasn't an issue,
	use: https://gist.github.com/3218106
	*/
	$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
	if( $loop->have_posts() ):

    while( $loop->have_posts() ): $loop->the_post(); global $post;

echo '<article>';

echo '<div class="entry-content grey">';

  echo '<header class="entry-header block-link-entry-header">';
    echo '<h2 class="entry-title block-link-entry-title">' . get_the_title() . '</h2>';
  echo '</header>';

  echo '<p>' . get_the_date() . '</p>';

  echo '<p>'  . get_the_excerpt() . '</p>';

echo '</div>';

  echo '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '" class="block-link image-block-link">';

    echo get_the_post_thumbnail();

  echo '</a>';

echo '</article>';

		endwhile;
		do_action( 'genesis_after_endwhile' );

echo '</section>';

	wp_reset_query();
  endif;

}

genesis();

[Genesis Developer]

Here is the updated code http://pastebin.com/rh6j6JRF.

You used 'cat' => 'category_name',. I am not sure that it will work correctly. Parameter "cat" is accepting the category ID not cat name or cat slug

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[Brad Dalton]

You could also use genesis_custom_loop() if you wanted to maintain the default markup.

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[studionoobly]

Thanks Brad,

Still getting a 404?

So I installed the 'Debug This' plugin and checked the Query > Rewrites and got the following

Matched Rule: (.+?)/([^/]+)(?:/([0-9]+))?/?$
Matched Query: category_name=music&name=page&page=2
Query String: page=2&name=page&category_name=music&debug-this=rewrites

I found this article http://meigwilym.com/fixing-the-wordpress-pagination-404-error/

and tried the following code in my functions but no joy? (edit and flushed the permalinks)

function mg_news_pagination_rewrite() {
  add_rewrite_rule(get_option('category_base').'/([^/]+)(?:/([0-9]+))?/?$', 'index.php?pagename='.get_option('category_base').'&paged=$matches[1]', 'top');
}
add_action('init', 'mg_news_pagination_rewrite');

Really not sure what to do now?

[Genesis Developer]

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[studionoobly]

Yup, tried your code too, thanks but it still retrieves to the 404 message

[Genesis Developer]

Yes. It is not working. Sorry for it.

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[studionoobly]

OK so I finally figured out what was causing the issue. I am using Custom Meta Boxes 2 and on some templates I'm using repeatable fields and if you don't use:

<?php if ( ! empty( $term ) ) : ?> don't forget the <?php endif; ?> at the end.

Then on empty fields that are not filled in by the user you will end up with errors that can apparently reek havoc with things like pagination.

[vannt93]

Useful! Thanks

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