Title: posts_nav_link not working
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# posts_nav_link not working

 *  [mkallen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkallen/)
 * (@mkallen)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-not-working/)
 * I have the following code on my index page:
 * <div style=”text-align:center;”>
    <?php posts_nav_link(‘ · ‘, ‘previous page’,‘
   next page’); ?> </div>
 * Instead of paging through my posts, it keeps showing the same, most recent page.
   I have tried several variations of the above, to no avail. What am I doing wrong?

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-not-working/#post-391385)
 * Are your permalinks, in general, working?
    Have a link to the blog?
 *  Thread Starter [mkallen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkallen/)
 * (@mkallen)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-not-working/#post-391386)
 * Yes, my permalinks are working.
 *  Thread Starter [mkallen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkallen/)
 * (@mkallen)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-not-working/#post-391387)
 * Here is a link to my blog:
 * [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/agriculturalsciences/news/](http://www.depts.ttu.edu/agriculturalsciences/news/)
 * Thanks.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-not-working/#post-391389)
 * They work when paging through your categories. That’s good.
 * Just not when paging through the “entire blog”. That’s… odd.
 * Do you have category templates? If so, is the link on those using the same template
   tag as your theme’s index.php?
 *  Thread Starter [mkallen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkallen/)
 * (@mkallen)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-not-working/#post-391393)
 * My category pages use an archive template with the following code:
 * <div class=”navigation”>
    <div class=”alignleft”><?php next_posts_link(‘« Previous
   Entries’) ?></div> <div class=”alignright”><?php previous_posts_link(‘Next Entries»’)?
   ></div> </div>
 * I originally had this on the home page, but it wasn’t working.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-not-working/#post-391396)
 * When you had it in the theme’s home page (index.php?) was it inside The Loop?
 *  Thread Starter [mkallen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkallen/)
 * (@mkallen)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-not-working/#post-391397)
 * The navigation has never been in the loop.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-not-working/#post-391399)
 * The doc on posts_nav_link() doesn’t seem to indicate that it needs to be in the
   loop:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/posts_nav_link](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/posts_nav_link)
 * However, the doc on next_posts_link and prev_posts_link appears to indicate they
   should be:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/next_post](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/next_post)
 *  Thread Starter [mkallen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkallen/)
 * (@mkallen)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-not-working/#post-391403)
 * Is next_posts the same as next_posts_link? next_posts goes in the loop on a single
   post page. posts_nav_link goes on the home page. I have
 * <div style=”text-align:center;”>
    <?php posts_nav_link(‘ · ‘, ‘previous page’,‘
   next page’); ?> </div>
 * on my home page, but it doesn’t work either. In the address bar, it indicates
   that it is showing a previous page:
 * [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/agriculturalsciences/news/index.php?paged=2](http://www.depts.ttu.edu/agriculturalsciences/news/index.php?paged=2)
 * But the entries are always the most recent.
 *  Thread Starter [mkallen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkallen/)
 * (@mkallen)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-not-working/#post-391458)
 * I used a different template (university mandated), but I tried to base it on 
   the default template. When I changed to the default template, the next and previous
   page links worked! What could I have left out?
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-not-working/#post-391461)
 * 🙂
 * I’ve lost track of which tags are where and which don’t work!
    The next and prev
   post calls (2 seperate ones)? Perhaps you didn’t have ’em in The Loop?

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