Wordpress custom taxonomy pagination not working

Question

I’m using the WP PageNavi plugin for pagination. This particular problem in not getting the taxonomy-portflio-category.php page to paginate is also a problem when WP PageNavi is turned off.

I’ve had a heck of a time getting pagination to work on the homepage and on a page template page, but I did get them to work. Here’s their code:

page-home.php (used as a Page template on a static front page called “Home”)

$paged = 1;
if ( get_query_var('paged') ) $paged = get_query_var('paged');
if ( get_query_var('page') ) $paged = get_query_var('page');
$i = 0;
$loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'portfolio', 'paged' => $paged, 'posts_per_page' => 24 ) );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
// output
$i++; endwhile;
if ( function_exists( 'wp_pagenavi' ) ) {
    wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $loop ) );
    wp_reset_postdata();
}

Pagination works!

page-portfolio.php (used as a Page template on a Page called “Work”)

$i = 0;
$loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'portfolio', 'paged' => get_query_var( 'paged' ), 'posts_per_page' => 24 ) );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
// output
$i++; endwhile;
if ( function_exists( 'wp_pagenavi' ) ) {
    wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $loop ) );
    wp_reset_postdata();
}

Pagination works!

taxonomy-portfolio-category.php (used as a way to display portfolio sections e.g. print, photography, etc.)

$term = get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var( 'term' ), get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) );
global $wp_query;
query_posts( array_merge( $wp_query->query, array( 'posts_per_page' => 2 ) ) );
if (have_posts()) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
// output
endwhile; endif;
if ( function_exists( 'wp_pagenavi' ) ) {
    wp_pagenavi();
}

Page 1 (/portfolio/interactive/) looks great! It’s definitely only posting 2 items and it calculates the correct number of pagination pages. But when you click on page 2 or 3 or 4 (/portfolio/interactive/page/2/) the site defaults to index.php and shows “Page not found”. Pagination fails!

Hopefully I can resolve this soon. I’ve seen A LOT of people with this same problem of pagination on custom taxonomy pages, but no solid solutions. Please help!

Answer 1

You Need to set posts per page to 24 on the Settings -> Reading page in WP admin. Hope this helps someone.