Pagination problem by using WP_Query

Question

Sorry for me, if I use incorrect words or sentenses, my English is poor, i.e. I'm from Russia. I have problem with pagination by using WP_query and pagination links like next_posts_link and previous_posts_link. My permalinks set is /%category%/%postname%/. WP 3.3.1. There is my code:

<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 0;
$looks = new WP_Query('cat=3&posts_per_page=4&paged='.$paged);
while ($looks->have_posts()) : $looks->the_post(); ?>

    <ul class="look">
    <a class="look_thumb" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">
    <?php the_post_thumbnail('medium'); ?>
    </a>
    <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
    </ul>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php next_posts_link('<small class="page_navi">Другие записи >></small>'); ?>
<?php previous_posts_link('<small class="page_navi">Предыдущие записи <<</small>'); ?>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

next_posts_link and previous_posts_link don't apear on page. This custom loop from my template page: 'looks_page.php'. What's wrong!? I'm trying fix it problem by during 3 days, but no results :(.

Answer 1

Looks like you're using the wrong query_var. It should be 'paged'

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 0;