I have a situation and all the searching I've done hasn't led me to a successful outcome. I have a static homepage template with a custom wp_query that looks like the following (which works on another site on a custom page--Also, I have posts_per_page set to 1 for testing purposes and I have posts set to 1 in the dashboard):
<?php
global $paged;
global $bday_parties;
$temp = $bday_parties;
$bday_parties = null;
$bday_parties = new WP_Query();
$bday_parties->query('category_name=party-themes&posts_per_page=1&post_type=page'.'&paged='.$paged);
while ($bday_parties->have_posts()) : $bday_parties->the_post();
?>
<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
<div class="article-border">
<?php get_template_part('partials/loop-homeparties'); ?>
</div>
</article>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<div class="pagination">
<?php wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $bday_parties ) ); ?>
</div>
<?php
$bday_parties = null;
$bday_parties = $temp;
?>
The partials/loop-homeparties template is pulling meta values from custom meta boxes on a page and that content is making up the "posts" on the homepage (as well as on archive pages).
Using the above query, I get the content on the home page, I get the nav links but when I click (the link shows the URL for the next page) the home page just reloads. I've been working on this for a couple of days now and the site needs to launch soon (this is holding me up). Since it works on another page successfully, I don't understand why it isn't working for me here. Any help would be appreciated.
TIA!