Strange behaviour with pagination

[antknight]

In one of my sections' news pages, paginated list of news items:

$results = $page->children("limit=3, sort=-date"); 
$pagination = $results->renderPager();
echo $pagination;
echo "<ul class='nav'>";
foreach($results as $result) {
    echo "<li><p><a href='{$result->url}'>{$result->title}</a><br /><span class='summary'>{$result->date}</span></p></li>";
}      
echo "</ul>";
echo $pagination; 

In the sidebar (from head.inc), list the latest 5 news items from that section:

$news = $page->rootParent->find("template=news-item, limit=5, sort=-date");
foreach ($news as $newsitem) {
echo "<li><a href='{$newsitem->url}'>{$newsitem->title}</a></li>";
echo "<span>{$newsitem->date}</span>";
}

On the first news page the sidebar displays correctly, when you go to page 2 I would expect the same five news items to be displayed. Instead the next five news items are displayed. Likewise for page 3, the next five news items are displayed. Why is this happening?

[Joss]

Try using a more defined selector.

$news = $pages->find("template=news-item, limit=5, sort=-date, parent=/newsparentpage/");

You might not even need the parent if the template is enough.

[Soma]

Add start=0 to the sidebar.

[antknight]

Thanks Soma, and an explanation from Ryan from here

[Soma]

It's also mentioned on the pagination docu. http://processwire.com/api/modules/markup-pager-nav/

[antknight]

It's also mentioned on the pagination docu. http://processwire.com/api/modules/markup-pager-nav/

Doh!