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fwiw i put in the offset key and removed paged
everything works the same – with the crazy urls still serving.

as for what i am trying to do….
take a look here –

http://www.todayshomeowner.com/video/installing-bifold-doors/2/

this will give you the second page

everything works like i want it to, but it will still serve these crazy urls ending with a long string of numbers (if you replace the 2 with 111111111111111111 the page will load)

google has indexed all these crazy urls and it’s causing us trouble. i don’t know how they got to the bad urls, since there is no link to them. you can only get there by typing the numbers in.

all i want it for those crazy urls not to load a page – a 404 would be nice.

as if it is not obvious – i am kind of a php / wordpress hack.

and chance you could help me out with what would work?

i have never heard of offset, but am reading the link you sent now. i just don’t quite understand yet.

oh yea h- that makes sense 🙂

how does this look? (it still servers the crazy 11111111111 urls btw)

<?php function curPageURL() {
$pageURL = ‘http’;
//check what if its secure or not
if ($_SERVER[“HTTPS”] == “on”) {
$pageURL .= “s”;
}
//add the protocol
$pageURL .= “://”;
//check what port we are on
if ($_SERVER[“SERVER_PORT”] != “80”) {
$pageURL .= $_SERVER[“SERVER_NAME”].”:”.$_SERVER[“SERVER_PORT”].$_SERVER[“REQUEST_URI”];
} else {
$pageURL .= $_SERVER[“SERVER_NAME”].$_SERVER[“REQUEST_URI”];
}
//cut off everything on the URL except the last 3 characters
$urlEnd = substr($pageURL, -3);
//strip off the two forward shashes
$page = str_replace(“/”, “”, $urlEnd);
//return just the number
return intval($page);

}

?>

<?php
$query = new WP_Query(

array(
‘paged’ => $page,
‘post_type’ => ‘video’,
‘order_by’ => ‘date’,
‘order’ => ‘desc’,
‘cat’ => $cat_ID,
‘posts_per_page’ => 18

)

); ?>
<h3><?php $num = $query->found_posts;
$totalpages = ceil($num / 18);
echo $num;?>

Just looking over that i should also mention that we changed the names of the subsites. one is now called television, one called radio. that’s what’s up with those 301s