moxyma

Hi Steve.. Just wanted to let you know that I THINK I have it working!

I just removed the line of code – $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1;

and I installed a plugin named wp-paginate and it seems to be working! Still testing. 🙂 I’ll keep ya posted.

I am not seeing the third post. :(. This is what I have done so far in the last 30 minutes. I created two additional posts now having a total of 5. They are all published and in category 49. I named them Post 1, Post 2, Post 3, Post 4, and Post 5.

Right now I see on my blog page “Post 5” and “Post 4”. I see on my address bar BEFORE I click on Older entries a url that looks like this: ?page_id=4 when I click on Older Entries my url in the address bar changes to this:
?page_id=4&paged=2. And then on that new page is still only see Post 5 and Post 4. I guess I didn’t do it right?

The code that I have in my custom blog page is the last code that you provided to me. 🙂

Hi stvwlf. Thank you for recommending that. I tried placing it right after where you indicated but it didn’t seem to work :(.

<?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query('posts_per_page=2'.'&paged='.$paged);
query_posts( 'cat=49' );
while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post();
?>

That is the code I have so far. I used query_posts to only retrieve a certain category for my custom blog page and it works. But I can’t get it to only show say 2 posts and then the pagination starts. AND I also need those posts in that category to now show on my default/main blog template.

Oh wait Swanson, oh my gosh oh my gosh wait it is working!!! I misunderstood your your code.

You gave this which is perfect – <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[shortcode]’); ?>

So then I have this now –

<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[MY SHORTCODE FROM THE PLUGIN]’); ?>

I was trying to put that in just like you typed it. But then I realized that you have to put in the actual shortcode for the plugin inside of the php code where it says ‘shortcode’. LOL

Oh my gosh thank you so much!!!

Hmm, I’m not sure what you mean by html view. I don’t have that option on my custom page. I built it using Dreamweaver.