Wordpress paging note

Has anyone else noticed the following note on http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query#Interacting_with_WP_Query

Pagination Note: You should set get_query_var( ‘page’ ); if you want your query to work with pagination. Since Wordpress 3.0.2, you do get_query_var( ‘page’ ) instead of get_query_var( ‘paged’ ).

Well, I just tried it and it does not work but the old way [ get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) ] still does.

Anyone else observed this too?

Hi,

you should use get_query_var( ‘page’ ) only if you set for the front page a static page that has a pagination in it.

Don’t ask me why they complicated a simple thing like this…

Maybe an if statement would work:

if(get_query_var('paged')) {
     $paged = get_query_var('paged');
} elseif(get_query_var('page')) {
     $paged = get_query_var('page');
} else {
     $paged = 1;
}

ParkerAndKent said
Hi,

you should use get_query_var( ‘page’ ) only if you set for the front page a static page that has a pagination in it.

Don’t ask me why they complicated a simple thing like this…

Yes, exactly that’s what I thought. I knew I was not going mad!

Thanks again