Numbered pagination showing all numbers instead of paginated blocks

Question

So I have a page where I want to list posts of specific category and numbered pagination based on that category. Listing posts was not a problem as I'm using Divi which does it easily. But pagination is not going along.

Assuming following scenario:

• Category name = Events
• No. of post in Events catyegory = 6
• Max post per page = 2

Expected output:

1 2 3 Next

Current output:

1 2 3 .. 6 Next

Basically it's showing all numbers i.e number of pagination blocks is equal to no. of posts in that category.

Code in fucntions.php for pagination

function myPagination($args = '')
{
    if (!isset($args['category'])) {
        return;
    }
    ob_start();
    $cat_id = get_cat_ID($args['category']);
    $mycats = get_categories("include=$cat_id");
    $total = $mycats[0]->category_count;
    /*only bother with the rest if we have more than 1 page!*/
    if ($total > 1) {
        /*get the current page*/
        if (!$current_page = get_query_var('paged')) {
            $current_page = 1;
        }
        /*structure of "format" depends on whether we're using pretty permalinks*/
        if (get_option('permalink_structure')) {
            $format = '&paged=%#%';
        } else {
            $format = 'page/%#%/';
        }
        $pagination = paginate_links(array(
            'base'     => get_pagenum_link(1) . '%_%',
            'format'   => $format,
            'current'  => $current_page,
            'total'    => $total,
            'mid_size' => 3,
            'type'     => 'list',
            'add_args' => $query_args
            ));
        ob_end_clean();
        return $pagination;
    }
}

The issue I can think of is it's not taking max number of posts to show to create the page gaps.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

Answer 1

You did enter total number of posts/events as total page count. you should have passed total number of pages instead of total pages as "total" args. So to pass as total pages, you should calculate like TOTAL_POSTS/PER_PAGE.. so if you have 6 posts and you have 2 posts per page then it would be 6/2=3 pages.. so the "total" value should have been 3.. if you have 7 posts.. then it would be 7/2=3.5=4 pages.. PHP ceil function does that trick to round off to highest value.

So part of your code should be

$total=ceil($mycats[0]->category_count/$my_per_page);

Where $my_per_page would be your Per Page variable.

I hope this fixes your issue