[wp-testers] previous_posts_link() buggy ?

[Ryan Boren]

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 17:30 -0400, e-head wrote:
> This function sometimes creates a link when there are no more posts.
> 
> I've had this problem for a while now.
> 
> You can see an example of it here:
> http://dotsandloops.net/page/19/
> 
> click "older" twice ... it will throw up the "Sorry, no posts matched
> your criteria." message.
> 
> you can also see it here:
> http://dotsandloops.net/blog/category/pictures/
> 
> Interestingly ...
> My pictures category was working fine till I edited some of the posts
> and added them to another category (cute) in addition to the pictures
> category ... then I started getting the erroneous "- older" link with
> previous_posts_link().

If you page by days (rather than posts), this will happen.  We currently
don't have code that will calculate the max number of pages when paging
by days.

Ryan