How to fix WordPress Paginated Post List

A broken WordPress pagination can be due to many errors. In this example, we will be looking at pages unchanged even though the page numbers change.

Usually to solve the issue of posts remaining the same while you select a different page from your pagination; you would need to pass an extra parameter in your posts query string. This parameter is displayed below:

PHP

'paged' => get_query_var('paged')

So in a real world scenario, like in your template’s index.html file, it would look a little something like this:

$query_string = array( 'paged' => get_query_var('paged') );

query_posts($query_string);

 

if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

...etc