Short answer: You are making the same query no matter what page you are, but you’re expecting a different result.
Long answer: The query should be different for second page, having paged=2
, so your query (and transients) with pagination should look like this:
$paged_var = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
if ( get_transient( 'category_one_posts-' . $paged_var ) == false ) {
$posts_inside = new WP_Query(
array(
'cat' => 1,
'paged' => $paged_var
)
);
set_transient( 'category_one_posts-' . $paged_var, $posts_inside, 60*60*1 );
} else {
$posts_inside = get_transient( 'category_one_posts-' . $paged_var );
}
if ( $posts_inside->have_posts() ) {
while( $posts_inside->have_posts() ) {
$posts_inside->the_post();
// Display posts.
}
echo get_next_posts_link( __( 'Next', 'textdomain'), $posts_inside->max_num_pages );
echo get_previous_posts_link( __( 'Previous', 'textdomain'), $posts_inside->max_num_pages );
}