{"id":2110,"date":"2019-03-04T18:18:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T02:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2019-03-04T18:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T02:27:06","slug":"genesis-custom-loop-not-paginating-correctly-on-front-page-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/genesis-custom-loop-not-paginating-correctly-on-front-page-php\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Custom Loop Not Paginating Correctly On front-page.php"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had to debug why\u00a0genesis_custom_loop wasn&#8217;t working on a homepage.\u00a0The\u00a0pagination at the bottom had \u201cNext Page\u201d but it only ever linked to page\u00a02 even if\u00a0the current &#8220;page&#8221; was 5. In the general settings, the homepage was set to a static page, not &#8220;The Latest Posts&#8221; page.<\/p>\n<p>genesis_custom_loop\u00a0uses\u00a0genesis_posts_nav for the pagination and there&#8217;s no known way to update what the $page or $paged variable is to reference. Basically, static pages\u00a0were never meant for pagination, so it\u00a0won&#8217;t return the proper value unless you&#8217;re on a blog or archive page.<\/p>\n<p>In order to fix this issue, writing a custom loop is necessary:<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed-gist\"><script src=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/gstricklind\/a9450059988773cd44e89dc9a958d653.js\"><\/script><noscript>View the code on <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/gstricklind\/a9450059988773cd44e89dc9a958d653\">Gist<\/a>.<\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Or if you know of a magic way to make\u00a0\u00a0genesis_custom_loop work on front-page.php I would be extremely happy to hear it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had to debug why\u00a0genesis_custom_loop wasn&#8217;t working on a homepage.\u00a0The\u00a0pagination at the bottom had \u201cNext Page\u201d but it only ever linked to page\u00a02 even if\u00a0the current &#8220;page&#8221; was 5. In the general settings, the homepage was set to a static page, not &#8220;The Latest Posts&#8221; page. genesis_custom_loop\u00a0uses\u00a0genesis_posts_nav for the pagination and there&#8217;s no known way to update what the $page or $paged variable is to reference. Basically, static pages\u00a0were never meant for pagination, so it\u00a0won&#8217;t return the proper value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}