Pagination when posts ordered by custom field

• fanta00

• August 27, 2015 at 5:22 am

I am trying to add pagination to a WordPress blog page where the query contains an ACF custom Field and my posts are ordered by this custom field: event_date. The code for pagination works fine on normal query, but not here. Can’t see what’s causing issue here. The pagination code just gives empty div container. (I have a code for pagination in my functions.php)

<?
$paged = ( get_query_var( 'page' ) ) ? get_query_var( 'page' ) : 1; 
$args = array(
    'paged' => $paged,
    //'posts_per_page'=>5,
    '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(); ?>

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

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

                </li>
    <?php } } else { ?>
        <h2>Not Found</h2>
    <?php } ?>

      <div id="pagination"><?php if (function_exists("pagination")) {
        pagination($additional_loop->max_num_pages);
       } ?></div>

    <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?> 

• John Huebner

• September 2, 2015 at 9:14 am

I see 2 things in your code

The first doesn’t effect the pagination but may be effecting the order 'order' => 'DSC', should be 'order' => 'DESC',

The other is this line pagination($additional_loop->max_num_pages); What is $additional_loop? shouldn’t that be pagination($the_query->max_num_pages);