Pagination Not Working on Category.php page

Question

My site is enerating some code for older/newer posts on the category page, but when you click "older" the link does not work. it is generating /blog/page/2 from /blog/

1. Tried a few plugins (WPnavi, Category pagination fix, and a few others that were the first and 2nd rated under "pagination" search) but it didn't work

2. Tried a bunch of the codes I found on wordpress.org

3. Only one post category, not a custom post.

But nothing seems to be working...

Here is the code

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>


<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

 <A href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" class="noborder"><?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail'); } ?></a></div>

<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?> "rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<section class="entry-content">
<?php $content = get_the_content();
      $content = strip_tags($content);
      echo substr($content, 0, 250);
?>... <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" class="button">Full Post</a>

<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

</article>

<nav>
<div class="6u"><?php next_posts_link(sprintf( __( '%s', 'blankslate' ), '<span class="button">&larr;  Older Posts</span>' ) ) ?>
<div class="6u"><?php previous_posts_link(sprintf( __( '%s', 'blankslate' ), '<span class="button">&rarr; </span>' ) ) ?></div>
</nav>

Answer 1

Try this code, not much different from your's but with proper nesting. Let me know if that works.

<?php if ( have_posts() ) :
    while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

    <article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

        <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" class="noborder"><?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail'); } ?></a>
        <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

            <section class="entry-content">
                <?php   $content = get_the_content();
                        $content = strip_tags($content);
                        echo substr($content, 0, 250) . '...';
                ?>
                <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" class="button">Full Post</a>
            </section>

    </article>

    <?php endwhile; ?>
        <nav>
            <div class="6u"><?php next_posts_link(sprintf( __( '%s', 'blankslate' ), '<span class="button">&larr;  Older Posts</span>' ) ) ?>
            <div class="6u"><?php previous_posts_link(sprintf( __( '%s', 'blankslate' ), '<span class="button">&rarr; </span>' ) ) ?></div>
        </nav>          

<?php else : ?>

    <p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' ); ?></p>

<?php endif; ?>

Answer 2

Found this to fix my problem, hope it helps someone:

  add_action('init','yoursite_init');
function yoursite_init() {
  global $wp_rewrite;
        //add rewrite rule.
                add_rewrite_rule("author/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$",'index.php?author_name=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]','top');
                add_rewrite_rule("(.+?)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$",'index.php?category_name=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]','top');
                $wp_rewrite->flush_rules(false);
}