Pagination and Static Front Pages

This is a post skewed towards the Genesis Framework. Actually, if you’re not using the Genesis Metro Pro theme, I don’t know how well this will work.

My problem was simple. I used the Metro Pro Static Front Page to show some widgets and then custom displays of posts via those widgets. It works pretty darn well and looks like this:

There was just one small issue. It doesn’t show me pagination at the bottom of the page. Oh and the normal method of example.com/page/2/ just showed me the same front page over and over. Not what I wanted.

One way I could work around this would be to treat the front page as a static front page and make a “blog” page. Except then my urls would be example.com/blog/page/2 and I’d have duplicate content on example.com/blog/ which is not desirable. Causing me more frustration was the fact that the documentation said this:

If no widgets are placed in any of the home page specific widget areas, a blog-style home page will be displayed.

What I wanted was that blog-style page on the sub pages, along with navigation.

Show Navigation Links

This part was easy. In the file front-page.php I edited the function function metro_homepage_widgets() to have this at the bottom:

genesis_posts_nav();

Really, that was it. Now I had navigation! But (as I already knew) the navigation didn’t work properly.

Fix Paged Content

At the top of the front-page.php file is a call to add an action with all the metro_home_genesis_meta content. I wrapped that in a check to see if the page we’re on is a ‘paged’ page using is_paged(), which specifically checks if the query is for paged result and not for the first page.

if ( !is_paged() ) {
	add_action( 'genesis_meta', 'metro_home_genesis_meta' );
}

Again, really, that was it.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

I’m Mika (aka Ipstenu) and I’m complicated. I’ve been on the net since the days of dedicated terminals and Novation CAT modems and solved Missionaries and Cannibals (or Goats and Cabbages) before I was six, and blog about WordPress and technical/computer things at Half Elf on Tech.

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