Having trouble getting pagination AND filtering to work.

Anonymous

#205546

Hello. New user here.

I’m having trouble getting pagination AND filtering to work. It’s one or the other, not both.

I’m using filtering on a Custom Post Type Archive in a custom theme. I tried to adapt my code to work like the results.php file, but it kept failing on the pagenavi args.

wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $the_query ) ); <– this just kept killing the page.

So.. I tried to simplify the query so it was a little more basic, but no matter what I pass to the ‘query’ arg in wp_pagenavi, nothing works.

The problem here, is I need to alphabetize my unfiltered results by a custom_meta. I’ve tried to search through support and try a few things, but I’m not getting it to work.

This is the code I’m pulling into my archive-thoughtleaders.php via get_template_party :

<?php
	$posts = get_posts(array(
		'post_type'			=> 'thoughtleaders',
		'posts_per_page'	=> 10,
		'paged' => ( get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1 ),
		'meta_key'			=> 'last_name',
		'orderby'			=> 'meta_value',
		'order'				=> 'ASC'
	));
?>
<?php //$the_query = new WP_Query( $posts ); // the results.php file didn't have this.. BUT without this, the $the_query from results.php sample throws an error on pagenavi. But docs say don't use custom loops. this essentially breaks the filtering but makes pagination work. '?>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
	
	<?php if (function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { ?>
		<div class="pagination">
			<?php wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $the_query ) ); ?>
			<?php //wp_pagenavi(); ?>
		</div>
	<?php } ?>
	
	<div class="leaderDirectory">
	
	<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
		
		<div class="leaderEntry">
			<a  href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
				<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { ?>
					<?php the_post_thumbnail('headshot-large');?>
				<?php } else { ?>
					<img src="https://via.placeholder.com/680x680" alt="" />
				<?php } ?>
				<div class="leaderEntryMeta">
					<h4><?php the_title(); ?></h4>
					<?php //the_excerpt(); ?>
					<p><?php echo wp_trim_words( get_the_excerpt(), 20, '&hellip;' ); ?></p>
					<p class="readMore">read more</p>
				</div>
			</a>
		</div>
		
	<?php endwhile; ?>
	
	</div>
	
	<?php if (function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { ?>
		<div class="pagination">
			<?php wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $the_query ) ); ?>
			<?php //wp_pagenavi(); ?>
		</div>
	<?php } ?>

<?php else : ?>
	 <p>No Results Found</p>
<?php endif; ?>

Trevor

#205557

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Anonymous

#205565

Ok.. we’ve got that sorted, but there was some issues persisting.

With AJAX enabled, sometimes a form submission would lead to no results (when it should.). With AJAX off, it seems to work better.

BUT

when using the text field to search for a word that is in the title of one of the posts, it doesn’t return expected results. It either comes up with nothing, or a totally different post.

Trevor

#205595

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