WP custom post types pagination/404 error

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I’m using a custom post type in WordPress (called “ns_news_article” generated from Magic Fields) which are registered and working. This rewrites the URL to add “category/news” after the domain (so: www.mydomain.com/category/news/custom-post-1). I have to have the “fake directories” in there.

I have this in the functions.php:

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add_rewrite_rule("[ns_news_article]" . '$', "index.php?pagename=[ns_news_article]", "top");
add_rewrite_rule("[ns_news_article]" . '/page/([0-9])*/?', "index.php?pagename=[ns_news_article]" . '&paged=$matches[1]', "top"); 
global $wp_rewrite;
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();

The 2nd line takes care of pagination 404 problem when viewing as multiple pages of lists, but then gives 404 errors when trying to view the single post. If I get rid of this, you can view the posts, but pagination doesn’t work.

Can I fix this or should it be done another way?

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  1. I’ve recently done custom post types pagination, so this is how I’ve done. Let’s say your custom post type it’s called “customp”.

    1. Create a file in your theme called page-customp.php. Then publish an empty page with “Customp” title. Now, when you’re visiting http://www.yourdomain.com/customp you will see a page that is using page-customp.php as a template. Now we will be using this page to show the custom posts and with a pagination.

    2. Place this code in your page-customp.php file:

      $paged = 1;

$postsPerPage = 5;

 if ( get_query_var('paged') ) $paged = get_query_var('paged');

 if ( get_query_var('page') )  $paged = get_query_var('page');

 query_posts( '&post_type=customp&paged=' . $paged . '&posts_per_page='.$postsPerPage );

while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

  the_title();
  echo get_the_excerpt();

endwhile;

customp_paginate();

    3. In your functions.php file place this:

      function customp_paginate() {

  global $wp_query, $wp_rewrite;

  $wp_query->query_vars['paged'] > 1 ? $current = $wp_query->query_vars['paged'] : $current = 1;

  $pagination = array(
    'base' => @add_query_arg('page', '%#%'),
    'format' => '',
    'total' => $wp_query->max_num_pages,
    'current' => $current,
    'show_all' => true,
    'type' => 'list',
    'prev_text' => '«',
    'next_text' => '»',
  );

  if ($wp_rewrite->using_permalinks())
    $pagination['base'] = user_trailingslashit(trailingslashit(remove_query_arg('s', get_pagenum_link(1))) . 'page/%#%/', 'paged');

  if (!empty($wp_query) && $pagination['total'] != 1) {
    $pagination['add_args'] = array('s' => get_query_var('s'));

    echo "<div class='paginate'><strong>Pages:</strong>" . paginate_links($pagination) . "</div>";
  }

}

    I hope it helps 🙂