Custom Post Type with Pagination in Genesis

Do You want to create a Custom Post Type loop with the Genesis core pagination? In this post I’m gonna show You how to do it.

1) Create a Custom Post Type and add some posts to it

You can create a Custom Post Type with code, or You can use a plugin like Custom Post Type UI to do it.

2) Create a new page named Pagination and leave it blank

3) Create a genesis template file named page-pagination.php and place this code into it

If You set the slug of the previous created page after the file name page.php -> page-pagination.php, You don’t need to specify the Template name: Pagination right after the opening php tag.

<?php
// =========================================================================
// CUSTOM POST TYPE WITH PAGINATION
// =========================================================================
function custom_loop_with_pagination() {
	global $post;

	$args = array(
		'post_type'      => 'books',  //---YOUR CUSTOM POST TYPE
		'posts_per_page' => 4,        //---SET HOW MANY POSTS MUST BE SHOWN ON ONE PAGE
		'paged'          => get_query_var( 'paged' )
	);

	global $wp_query;
	$wp_query = new WP_Query( $args );

	if ( have_posts() ) : 
		while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
            
            <article>
                <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
                <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
			</article>

		<?php endwhile;
		do_action( 'genesis_after_endwhile' );
	endif;

	wp_reset_query();
}
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'custom_loop_with_pagination' );
remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );


genesis();

4) The result will be look like this