Pagination – how to add numbered pagination

• fanta00

• August 28, 2015 at 7:56 am

I would like to add numbered pagination to my blog landing page. Typical pagonation codes from WOrdpress do not work in my query – I am using custom field as an event date, and I order posts by that custom field. Can anyone help me set up pagination in my query please:

<?
    /*
    *  Order Posts based on Date Picker value
    *  this example expects the value to be saved in the format: yymmdd (JS) = Ymd (PHP)
    */

    $args = array(
        'posts_per_page'=>12,
        'meta_key' => 'event_date', // name of custom field
        'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
        'order' => 'DSC',
        'cat' => '2'
    );

    $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );

         if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
            while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) { 
    ?>			
            <?php $the_query->the_post(); ?>

                            <?php 
                                $date = get_field('event_date');
                                $dateformat = date("F j, Y", strtotime($date));
                            ?>
                            <p class="date"><?php echo $dateformat; ?> 

                            <?php the_title(); ?>
                            <?php the_post_thumbnail( 'thumb-270x270' ); ?></a>
                            <?php the_tags( '', ', ', ''); ?>

        <?php } } else { ?>
            <h2>Not Found</h2>
        <?php } ?>
        </ul>
        
        
        <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?> 

• John Huebner

• September 2, 2015 at 9:24 am

Since this is the blog landing page, I’m assuming that it’s index.php or something similar, have you tried using the WP hook pre_get_posts to modify the main query rather doing a new query? https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/pre_get_posts