Pagination is not working on custom query inside a custom home page template

I know this is a duplicate question. But to comment on existing question, I dont have enough points.

So here we go....

Pagination is not working on custom query inside a custom home page template.

The solution (which worked for many others) below is taken from another question.

How to fix pagination for custom loops?


div class=most-popular type-1
   h3 class=section-headline?php _e('Most Popular','themename'); ?/h3
   div class=widget-articles clearfix
      ?php 
         $mostpopular_args=array(
             'post_type'        = 'post',
             'orderby'          = 'meta_value_num',
             'meta_key'         = 'view_count',
             'posts_per_page'   = '10',
         );
         $mostpopular_args['paged'] = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
         ?
      ?php 
         $mostpopular_pick = new WP_Query($mostpopular_args); 
         // Pagination fix
         $temp_query = $wp_query;
         $wp_query   = NULL;
         $wp_query   = $mostpopular_pick;
         ?
      ?php if($mostpopular_pick-have_posts() ): ?
      ?php while($mostpopular_pick-have_posts()): $mostpopular_pick-the_post(); ?
      article class=widget-article
         a href =?php the_permalink(); ?
            div class=widget-article-thumb
               ?php if(has_post_thumbnail()){ ?
               ?php $page_thumb = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id(get_the_ID()), 'featuredsmall'); ?
               img src=?php echo $page_thumb[0]; ? alt= /   
               ?php } ?
            /div
         /a
         div class=widget-content-wrapper
            h3 class=widget-article-titlea href=?php the_permalink(); ??php the_title(); ?/a/h3
         /div
         div class=only-count
            div class=icon icon-share-alt aria-hidden=true/div
            ?php echo do_shortcode('[mashshare shares=true buttons=false]'); ?
            div class=share-textSHARES/div
         /div
      /article
      ?php endwhile; ?
      ?php endif; ?
      ?php 
         wp_reset_postdata(); 
         // Custom query loop pagination
         previous_posts_link( 'Older Posts' );
         next_posts_link( 'Newer Posts', $mostpopular_pick-max_num_pages );
         // Reset main query object
         $wp_query = NULL;
         $wp_query = $temp_query;
      ?
   /div
/div

However this is not working for me, I dont know why. Is there any external factor?

Between this is my total custom home page template.


?php
/*
Template Name: Home Page
*/
?
?php get_header(); ?
    div class=main-content col-xs-12 role=main
        div class=row
            ?php get_sidebar('abovethefold'); ?
        /div
        div class=row
            ?php get_sidebar('homecolumnone'); ?
            div class=homecolumntwo-sidebar col-sm-4 col-md-5
                div class=most-popular type-1
                    h3 class=section-headline?php _e('Most Popular','themename'); ?/h3
                    div class=widget-articles clearfix
                            ?php 
                                $mostpopular_args=array(
                                    'post_type'         = 'post',
                                    'orderby'           = 'meta_value_num',
                                    'meta_key'          = 'view_count',
                                    'posts_per_page'    = '10',
                                );
                                $mostpopular_args['paged'] = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
                            ?
                            ?php 
                                $mostpopular_pick = new WP_Query($mostpopular_args); 
                                // Pagination fix
                                $temp_query = $wp_query;
                                $wp_query   = NULL;
                                $wp_query   = $mostpopular_pick;
                            ?

                            ?php if($mostpopular_pick-have_posts() ): ?
                                ?php while($mostpopular_pick-have_posts()): $mostpopular_pick-the_post(); ?
                                    article class=widget-article
                                        a href =?php the_permalink(); ?
                                            div class=widget-article-thumb
                                                ?php if(has_post_thumbnail()){ ?
                                            ?php $page_thumb = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id(get_the_ID()), 'featuredsmall'); ?
                                                    img src=?php echo $page_thumb[0]; ? alt= /  
                                                ?php } ?
                                            /div
                                        /a
                                            div class=widget-content-wrapper
                                                h3 class=widget-article-titlea href=?php the_permalink(); ??php the_title(); ?/a/h3
                                            /div
                                            div class=only-count
                                                div class=icon icon-share-alt aria-hidden=true/div
                                                ?php echo do_shortcode('[mashshare shares=true buttons=false]'); ?
                                                div class=share-textSHARES/div
                                            /div
                                    /article
                                ?php endwhile; ?
                            ?php endif; ?
                            ?php 
                                wp_reset_postdata(); 
                                // Custom query loop pagination
                                previous_posts_link( 'Older Posts' );
                                next_posts_link( 'Newer Posts', $mostpopular_pick-max_num_pages );
                                // Reset main query object
                                $wp_query = NULL;
                                $wp_query = $temp_query;
                            ?
                    /div
                /div
            /div !-- end sidebar --
            ?php //get_sidebar('homecolumntwo'); ?
            ?php get_sidebar('homecolumnthree'); ?
        /div
    /div !-- end main-content --
?php get_footer(); ?

Any help would be highly appreciated :) Thank You 3

Topic paginate-links page-template wp-query pagination query Wordpress

Category Web

1
answered at

Use this for pagination

<?php
    $paged = ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) ? absint( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) : 1;

    $mostpopular_args=array(
             'post_type' => 'post',
             'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
             'meta_key' => 'view_count',
             'paged' => $paged,
             'posts_per_page' => '10',
         );
    $wp_query = new WP_Query($mostpopular_args);

    while ($wp_query->have_posts()): $wp_query->the_post();
    get_the_title();
    endwhile;

    global $wp_query;

    $big = 999999999; // need an unlikely integer

    echo paginate_links( array(
        'base' => str_replace( $big, '%#%', esc_url( get_pagenum_link( $big ) ) ),
        'format' => '?paged=%#%',
        'current' => max( 1, get_query_var('paged') ),
        'total' => $wp_query->max_num_pages
    ) );
?>

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