Pagination not working with custom loop

I’ve run into this problem with PageNavi before. My solution is to hijack the $wp_query variable temporarily and then reassign it after closing the loop. An exmaple: <?php $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1; $args=array( ‘post_type’=>’post’, ‘cat’ => 6, ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, ‘paged’=>$paged ); $temp = $wp_query; $wp_query= null; $wp_query = new WP_Query($args); /* … Read more

How to inject a post within a loop

I am assuming you are doing something like this: if (have_posts()) { while (have_posts()) { the_post(); if(x == j){ //inject post here } } } Injecting a post inside the Loop like that will cause the post count for that page to differ from the posts_per_page value, but it will not break pagination (which seems … Read more

Why is my pagination showing up?

post_count property of query object will hold amount of posts queried. Note that this is not often used and it is more common to display such elements by conditional logic (is_singular(), is_archive(), etc) or on template level. PS query_posts() is evil and should not be used