Pagination with WP_Widget_Categories

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Hi–

I’m trying to paginate pages of posts that use the widget WP_Widget_Categories as a dropdown, but it doesn’t seem to get past page 1.

My code:

<?php the_widget( 'WP_Widget_Categories', 'dropdown=1&count=1' ); ?>
<br>

<?PHP
	$temp = $wp_query;
	$args=array('posts_per_page' => 5,'paged' => get_query_var('page'));
	$wp_query= null;
	$wp_query = new WP_Query();
	$wp_query->query($args);

	while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

	<p><span class="newsDate"><?PHP echo the_date(); ?></span><br>
	<h2 class="newsHead"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Read more"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

<?PHP the_excerpt(__('(more…)')); ?>

<br>
<?php endwhile; ?>


<?php if ($paged > 1) { ?>
	<nav id="nav-posts">
	<div class="prev"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Previous Posts'); ?></div>
<div class="next"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Posts &raquo;'); ?></div>
</nav>

<?php } else { ?>

<nav id="nav-posts">
<div class="prev"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Previous Posts'); ?></div>
</nav>

<?php } ?>

<?php //wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

My page works fine as long as I don’t change the dropdown to another category, but if I do, I only see the first 5 posts. The URL changes page numbers when I click the links, but the content never changes.

Any ideas?

Thank you!!

• This topic was modified 9 minutes ago by hank scorpio.