So I wrote the following to create a transient:
$wp_object_i_created = new WP_Query('cat=1');
set_transient('category_one_posts', $wp_object_i_created, 60*60*1);
Ok so then I decided "Ya know lets walk through this and spit out the posts."
So I did the following:
if(false !== get_transient('category_one_posts')){
$posts_inside = get_transient('category_one_posts');
if($posts_inside->have_posts()){
while($posts_inside->have_posts()){
$posts_inside->the_post();
// Display your posts in some maner.
}
echo get_next_posts_link('« Older Entries', $max_pages);
echo get_previous_posts_link('Newer Entries »', $max_pages);
}
}
Now the pagination works - here's the catch - It works in a really failed way. So I have it set to display 5 posts per page.
So if I go to my link: http://localhost/wordpress/?page_id=1667
I see my 5 posts and at the bottom my two links - one for older, one for newer. Woot. But if I click on the button "Older Entries" to go back, so my link now looks like: http://localhost/wordpress/?page_id=1667&paged=2
I see that were on page two, I can go one page forward and so on - BUT the posts are the same, they never updated.
Now regular queries done to get specific posts based on specific parameters, or even just the regular WordPress loop - their pagination all work as expected, you go to page two, you get a different set of posts then that on page one - woot! - we work.
But transient based pagination does not work.
Why?
get_transient('category_one_posts')
call returns false (and paging works) and can you show us the code that defines$max_pages
?