[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13840: $Paged Won't Set On Index When Static Page Is Set

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#13840: $Paged Won't Set On Index When Static Page Is Set
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 Reporter:  tehfab1       |       Owner:                                                   
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new                                              
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.0                                              
Component:  Query         |     Version:  3.0                                              
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  paged, pagination, $paged, get_query_var('paged')
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 Hey Wordpress Masters :),

 I've spent the better part of four hours trying to figure what the heck
 was going on with a new template I've been developing for Wordpress 3.0.

 After some rather extensive testing I figured out that when you have a
 custom loop on a wordpress page (e.g. query_posts()) and that page is set
 as the static front page of the blog, the pagination seems to break
 completely.

 As an example I have two images here. I went to a more standard wordpress
 theme since my theme is still incomplete. Basically what I did was set a
 page as the static front page of the site and then added the following
 code to the page.php file in the template:

 http://www.alleysandcorners.com/sfs/wordpress-paged.png

 On any other page of the site, if I visited that page it would output a
 number. Like:

 blog.com/pagename/page/2 would die with "int(2)".

 But on the index, a URL like

 blog.com/page/2 produced a var_dump of "string(0) "''"" like so:
 http://www.alleysandcorners.com/sfs/paged_in_wordpres_3.0.png

 This odd behavior ONLY happens on the index of the site, and ONLY when a
 static page is set. Any other page on the site seems to paginate perfectly
 fine, regardless of if there is a wordpress loop on the page or not.

 I even tried turning off permalinks and reverting backed to
 index.php?paged=2 . Still no luck if I have a static page set.

 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Not sure if there is a proper way
 to fix this, but I'm fairly certain at this point that this is a wordpress
 3.0 issue.

 I'm running 3.0-RC2-15182 on Dreamhost Shared Hosting.

 PHP5 (don't know the version number).
 Apache, etc.

 Thanks in advanced for any insight you can provide :).

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