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I am building a catalog site.  On the thumbnail menu images pages I am using pagination and limiting the entries shown to 8, but it is not working.  When I don’t limit the number of entries it shows all of them correctly, but when I limit the number of entries to 8, every page is showing a different number of entries.

Here is the code:

<!-- start thumbnail list -->
    <ul class="thumbnail-list">
    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="products" disable="member_data|trackbacks" category="4"  orderby="url_title" sort="asc"  limit="8" paginate="top"}
{if img-id =="1"}
          <li>
          <a href="http://{url_title_path=products/product_detail_2}">{site_url}images/ee_products/th/{title}.jpg</a>
          <a href="http://{url_title_path=products/product_detail_2}"><span>{item_name}</span></a>
          </li>
{/if}
{paginate}
                <ul class="page-nav">
{pagination_links}
                </ul> <!-- end div - pages -->
{/paginate}
     {/exp:weblog:entries}
     </ul>
<!-- end thumbnail list -->

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks

I think this might be a problem I had a while ago. The exp:weblog call generates the number of results you’re getting back and dumps that info to the screen - then you’re doing an {if} statement to filter out some of that data. The pagination doesn’t see your {if}, it’s just calculating based on the total results you’re getting back.

I’ll look up how exactly I got around this and let you know. What does {if img-id =="1"} relate to?

Thanks for the fast response.

What does {if img-id =="1"} relate to?

There are several views for each product, but we need only one view to show up in the thumbnail menu.  So if it has an img-id of 0 it doesn’t show up.  Should I set this as a category instead of a custom field?

Yes, that’s what I’d do - when dealing with pagination, I’ve found that any form of conditional logic inside the weblog tags causes a real headache, so if you can get your initial weblog:entries call to return exactly what you want to play with, you should be in business.

Yep- Andy nailed it.  You’re conditionally showing some entries- but the page count is based on the number of entries returned.  So- it always returns 8- but you only may show 5 or 6 or 8 or- whatever the conditional dictates.

I’d use a category- or you can use the search paramter- but basically- something that only pulls back the entries you want.

Thank you both for the help.  I used the search parameter and it works perfectly.  I’ve posted the new code below for anyone having the same problem.

<!-- start thumbnail list -->
    <ul class="thumbnail-list">
    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="products"  search:img-id="=1" disable="member_data|trackbacks" category="4"  orderby="url_title" sort="asc"  limit="8" paginate="top"}
          <li>
          <a href="http://{url_title_path=products/product_detail_2}">{site_url}images/ee_products/th/{title}.jpg</a>
          <a href="http://{url_title_path=products/product_detail_2}"><span>{item_name}</span></a>
          </li>
{paginate}
                <ul class="page-nav">
{pagination_links}
                </ul> <!-- end div - pages -->
{/paginate}
     {/exp:weblog:entries}
     </ul>
<!-- end thumbnail list -->

No worries, I remember this being a particular pain.