Loops, Pagination, and get_posts

[herbyderby]

Hello all,

I am having the hardest time simply paginating a category of posts. I’ve looked at many forums, codexes, and Google results to no avail. What the heck am I doing wrong here?

The code:

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
        
    <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); /* THE LOOP */ ?>

<div id="pageHeader"><?php the_block('Page Header'); ?></div>

<div id="pageEntry" class="group">
    <div class="inner group">

        <h2 class="pageTitle"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

                <?php $posts = get_posts("posts_per_page=5&cat=15,22"); ?>
                    <?php if( $posts ) : ?>
                        <?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
                        
            <article class="projects group">
                <div class="leftProjCol group"><?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'feat-thumb'); ?></div>
                <div class="rightProjCol">
                    <h2 class="projectTitle"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $post->post_title; ?></a></h2>
                    <div class="thePost">
                        
                                    <p><?php
                                      $excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
                                      echo string_limit_words($excerpt,60);
                                    ?>&nbsp;</p>
                        
                        <?php //echo apply_filters('the_content', $post->post_content); ?>
                        
                    </div>
                    <a class="readOn" href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>">Read More</a>
                </div>
            </article>
                <?php /* Keep these three lines out to separate each article */ ?>
                <?php endforeach; ?>
                <?php endif; ?>
                <?php wp_reset_postdata(); #clean up ?>
                
                <div id="pagWrap" class="group"><span class="prev"><?php previous_post_link('%link', 'Previous in category', TRUE); ?></span><span class="next"><?php next_posts_link(); ?></span></div>
                
    </div>
</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Thanks in advance.

[mcjohnst]

I’d recommend converting this over to using WP_Query along with properly set paged params.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

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