Numeric pagination not appearing inside custom loop - Wordpress - php

Question

I have been trying to add numeric pagination to my posts page which are filtered by category. The problem is that pagination won't appear when I call it. Pagination works perfectly fine when I use previous_posts_link and next_posts_link but this is not excatly what I want to achieve. What am I missing here?
My filtered category page.
<?php
// Get post ID
$post_type = get_post_type( $post->ID );
// Get category ID
$category_id = get_cat_ID(single_cat_title('', false));
// Wordpress pagination
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
// WP_Query arguments
$args_news = array (
'post_type' => array( 'post' ),
'pagination' => true,
'posts_per_page' => '2',
'orderby' => 'date',
'paged' => $paged,
'cat' => $category_id,
);
// The Query
$query = new WP_Query( $args_news );
// The Loop
if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
$query->the_post(); ?>
<?php get_template_part('categorytwo',get_post_format()); ?>
<?php }
} else {
// no news found
}
?>
<div class="pagination">
<?php my_pagination(); ?>
</div>
<?php
// Reset postdata
wp_reset_postdata();
?>
This pagination function works fine on my index.php page when I call it out.
<?php
if ( get_query_var('paged') ) { $paged = get_query_var('paged'); }
elseif ( get_query_var('page') ) { $paged = get_query_var('page'); }
else { $paged = 1; }
query_posts(array(
'post_type' => 'post', // You can add a custom post type if you like
'paged' => $paged,
'posts_per_page' => 4
));
if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php get_template_part('catalog',get_post_format()); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<div class="pagination">
<?php my_pagination(); ?>
</div>
<?php else : ?>
<?php // no posts found message goes here ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); // add this ?>
<?php endif; ?>
Functions.php
if ( ! function_exists( 'my_pagination' ) ) :
function my_pagination() {
global $wp_query;
$big = 999999999; // need an unlikely integer
echo paginate_links( array(
'base' => str_replace( $big, '%#%', esc_url( get_pagenum_link( $big ) ) ),
'format' => '?paged=%#%',
'current' => max( 1, get_query_var('paged') ),
'prev_text' => __('« PREV'),
'next_text' => __('NEXT »'),
'total' => $wp_query->max_num_pages
) );
}
endif;
When I call it out on my index.php page it works fine.
<?php
if ( get_query_var('paged') ) { $paged = get_query_var('paged'); }
elseif ( get_query_var('page') ) { $paged = get_query_var('page'); }
else { $paged = 1; }
query_posts(array(
'post_type' => 'post', // You can add a custom post type if you like
'paged' => $paged,
'posts_per_page' => 4
));
if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php get_template_part('catalog',get_post_format()); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<div class="pagination">
<?php my_pagination(); ?>
</div>
<?php else : ?>
<?php // no posts found message goes here ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); // add this ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Answer 1

Use this code on your loop:
<div class="posts_blog">
<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'post', // Your post type name
'posts_per_page' => 5,
'paged' => $paged,
);
$loop = new WP_Query($args);
if ($loop->have_posts()) {
while ($loop->have_posts()) : $loop->the_post();
?>
<div class="posts_container ">
// Posts format: <?php get_template_part('catalog',get_post_format()); ?>
</div>
<?php
endwhile;
$total_pages = $loop->max_num_pages;
if ($total_pages > 1) {
?>
<div class="pagination">
<?php
$current_page = max(1, get_query_var('paged'));
echo paginate_links(array(
'base' => get_pagenum_link(1) . '%_%'.'/#posts-blog',
'format' => '/page/%#%',
'current' => $current_page,
'total' => $total_pages,
'prev_text' => __('<'),
'next_text' => __('>'),
));
?>
</div>
<?php
}
}
wp_reset_postdata();
if (function_exists("pagination")) {
pagination($wp_query->max_num_pages);
}
?>
</div>