Page/Post Navigation just reloads the page

[arronjuk]

Hi

I have 2 blog pages within a mainly CMS wordpress site. I have a template file called news that both these blog pages use. The file looks at what page it is and retrieves the post within the relevant category (so 2 categories and 2 pages). I also have archives links at the top of the page, again filtered by categories. This all works fine.

The problem is I wanted to only show the latest 5 posts (within the relevant category) and then have navigation at the bottom for the next 5 posts ect..

When I click next page or previous entries, it just reloads the same page with the same posts. I did notice that the url gets /page/2 added though?!

Below is what I have so far...

Any help is hugely appreciated! ! !

div id="content">
<div id="archiveheader">
<?php //Set the relevant category to the variable
if ( is_page('world-heritage-latest') )$C=3;
elseif ( is_page('great-lines-heritage-park-latest') ) $C=4;
//Display archive years for the selected category, made possible by Kwebble Archives plugin.
wp_get_archives('type=yearly&cat='.$C); ?>
</div> 

<?php //Display posts for relevant category
query_posts('posts_per_page=5&cat='.$C);
?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h1>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php the_date('', '<h2>', '</h2>'); ?>
<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('Read More »'); ?>
</div>

</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<div class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft"><?php posts_nav_link('','','« Previous Entries') ?></div>
<div class="alignright"><?php posts_nav_link('','Next Entries »','') ?></div>
</div>
<?php else : ?>

[chipbennett]

Hi

I have 2 blog pages within a mainly CMS wordpress site. I have a template file called news that both these blog pages use. The file looks at what page it is and retrieves the post within the relevant category (so 2 categories and 2 pages). I also have archives links at the top of the page, again filtered by categories. This all works fine.

The problem is I wanted to only show the latest 5 posts (within the relevant category) and then have navigation at the bottom for the next 5 posts ect..

When I click next page or previous entries, it just reloads the same page with the same posts. I did notice that the url gets /page/2 added though?!

Below is what I have so far...

Any help is hugely appreciated! ! !

If I had to guess, I'd say that it's due to the way you're handling your custom querying of posts. See the Codex for query_posts().

One thing I notice immediately is that you don't begin your query_posts() argument with an ampersand. You also don't globalize $query_string, or pass it into the query_posts() argument.

Also, you might want to use get_posts() instead of query_posts().

[Otto]

Chip nailed it.

 query_posts($query_string.'&posts_per_page=5&cat='.$C);