Title: Pagination shows same posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Pagination shows same posts

 *  Resolved [tocchio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tocchio/)
 * (@tocchio)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-shows-same-posts/)
 * Hello there,
 * as I was developing my blog layout with the plugin “Theme Test Drive”, I had 
   some pagination issues on my template page, but I could solve them all. Now I
   rolled out my blog, but I got the same problem as before: the pagination function
   shows the same posts in every page.
 * Here is the code from my template page:
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
       <div id="content">
   
       	<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
       	<?php endwhile; else: endif; ?>
   
       	<?php $temp = $wp_query; $wp_query= null;
       	$wp_query = new WP_Query(); $wp_query->query('showposts=5' . '&paged='.$paged . '&category_name='.get_the_title());
   
       	while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>
   
       	<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
   
       	<div class="entry-byline">
       		<span <?php hybrid_attr( 'entry-author' ); ?>><?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></span>
       		<time <?php hybrid_attr( 'entry-published' ); ?>><?php echo get_the_date(); ?></time>
       		<?php comments_popup_link( number_format_i18n( 0 ), number_format_i18n( 1 ), '%', 'comments-link', '' ); ?>
       		<?php if ( function_exists( 'ev_post_views' ) ) ev_post_views( array( 'text' => '%s' ) ); ?>
       		<?php edit_post_link(); ?>
       	</div><!-- .entry-byline -->
   
       	<?php
       	global $more;
       	$more = 0;
       	?>
   
       	<?php the_content( 'Mais...' ); ?> 	
   
       	<div align="center"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/www.farofadechucrute.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Separator2.png?resize=600%2C20" border="0"></div>
   
       	<?php endwhile; ?>	
   
       	<p align="center"><?php wpex_pagination(); ?></p>
   
       </div>
   
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * And here is the pagination functions in my functions.php:
 *     ```
       // Numbered Pagination
       if ( !function_exists( 'wpex_pagination' ) ) {
   
       	function wpex_pagination() {
   
       		$prev_arrow = is_rtl() ? '&rarr' : '<< Anterior';
       		$next_arrow = is_rtl() ? '&larr' : 'Próximo >>';
   
       		global $wp_query;
       		$total = $wp_query->max_num_pages;
       		$big = 999999999; // need an unlikely integer
       		if( $total > 1 )  {
       			 if( !$current_page = get_query_var('paged') )
       				 $current_page = 1;
       			 if( get_option('permalink_structure') ) {
       				 $format = 'page/%#%/';
       			 } else {
       				 $format = '&paged=%#%';
       			 }
       			echo paginate_links(array(
       				'base'			=> str_replace( $big, '%#%', esc_url( get_pagenum_link( $big ) ) ),
       				'format'		=> $format,
       				'current'		=> max( 1, get_query_var('paged') ),
       				'total' 		=> $total,
       				'mid_size'		=> 1,
       				'type' 			=> 'plain',
       				'prev_text'		=> $prev_arrow,
       				'next_text'		=> $next_arrow,
       				'before_page_number' 	=> '&nbsp',
       				'after_page_number' 	=> '&nbsp',
       			 ) );
       		}
       	}
   
       }
       ```
   
 * What am I doing wrong? Can another function somewhere inside my child theme block
   the pagination function?
 * Thanks in advance
 * Cheers
    Felipe [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-shows-same-posts/www.farofadechucrute.com?output_format=md)

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 *  Thread Starter [tocchio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tocchio/)
 * (@tocchio)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-shows-same-posts/#post-5089274)
 * I got it! I changed my query to this:
 *     ```
       <?php if ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) {
       	$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
       	} else {
       	$paged = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1;
       	}
       	?>
   
       	<?php query_posts('category_name='.get_the_title().'&post_status=publish&paged=' . $paged);?>
       ```
   

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