WordPress Next / Previous Posts Not Working

[Ricky55]

Hi Guys

Struggling to get this working. This code appears on my page-blog.php When the links are clicked the url changes to /page/2/ etc but the posts themselves don’t change. I have some very similar code in my single.php and its working fine. My code is below, what am I doing wrong?

`

<section role="main">

        <?php $page = get_page_by_title('the blog'); $content = apply_filters('the_content', $page->post_content); echo $content; ?>

        <?php $blog_posts = new WP_Query(); $blog_posts->query('showposts=5');
            if ( $blog_posts->have_posts() ) : while ( $blog_posts->have_posts() ) : $blog_posts->the_post(); ?>

        <article>
            <?php the_title(); ?>
        </article>

        <?php endwhile; ?>

        <nav id="post-nav">
            <span class="prev"><?php next_posts_link( '&larr; View Older Posts', $blog_posts->max_num_pages ); ?></span>
            <?php previous_posts_link('<span class="next">' .( 'View more Recent Posts &rarr;' ). '</span>'); ?>
        </nav>

        <?php else:  ?>
            <p>Sorry it looks like you need to add some posts to this blog!</p>
        <?php endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>

</section>

`

[Ricky55]

Found a fix for this just in case anyone ever reads this and requires then same answer. My older posts link wasn’t working as I hadn’t set the paged variable.

My code looks like this now.

`

<img src="<?php print IMAGES; ?>/header-blog.jpg" alt="Blog Header Image" width="999" height="250">

<section role="main">

        <?php $page = get_page_by_title('the blog'); $content = apply_filters('the_content', $page->post_content); echo $content; ?>

        <?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
            $blog_posts = new WP_Query('showposts=4' . '&paged='.$paged);

            if ( $blog_posts->have_posts() ) : while ( $blog_posts->have_posts() ) : $blog_posts->the_post(); ?>

        <article>
            <?php the_title(); ?>
        </article>

        <?php endwhile; ?>

        <nav id="post-nav">
            <span class="prev"><?php next_posts_link( '&larr; View Older Posts', $blog_posts->max_num_pages ); ?></span>
            <?php previous_posts_link('<span class="next">' .( 'View more Recent Posts &rarr;' ). '</span>'); ?>
        </nav>

        <?php else:  ?>
            <p>Sorry it looks like you need to add some posts to this blog!</p>
        <?php endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>

</section>

`

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