Pagination in author, category, archive and tags pages does not work

Question

I have implemented a no-plugin pagination taken from here: http://www.kriesi.at/archives/how-to-build-a-wordpress-post-pagination-without-plugin

It's works perfecto un normal loop but when I try to use in author pages, categories, archives, tags and search results everything goes bad.

The pagination works but when the link it generate load then everything woes wrong.

The code:

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args = array(
    'posts_per_page' => '3',
    'paged'=>$paged 
);

query_posts( $args );

h**p://localhost/?author=1&paged=1 works perfect, load author.php template.

h**p://localhost/?author=1&paged=2 redirects me to home page.

If I change &paged with &page the it works but the stander loop in index.php used paged by default and I want the same paginator working in the hole website.

It's like wordpress do something special with "paged" parameter.

¿Any tip or suggestion?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

This looks like a simular issue to this one with wp-pageNavi: http://scribu.net/wordpress/wp-pagenavi/right-way-to-use-query_posts.html.

Taxonomies and archives should use 'page', not 'paged' so use that in the urls to begin with.

Then, to ensure your pagination script works in all locations you can change the way you get your $paged variable.

Something like this should do it:

if (is_archive()) {
     $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
} else {
     $paged = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1;
}