I don’t know if you have a workaround for this or not – my pagination on my post widget no longer works with the new WP update. I’ve got the latest GeneratePress.
I contacted elementor and they sent me here
https://www.theindianwire.com/wordpress/wordpress-5-5-has-a-huge-flaw-and-it-is-breaking-websites-284794/
I don’t know if you’ve come up with a workaround – but I know you guys are on top of everything and I can’t be the only one having this issue.
Below I’ve pasted from this article but this is something that resides in the theme, I think, and I don’t want to mess with that!
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The problem is the word ‘page’ is used by WordPress to only assin numerical values to it. But some themes are giving it alphanumerical values. So there is a conflict in the value of ‘page’. This leads to errors on your site.
A WordPress contributor has said that instead of using page for building themes, use some other words as a variable.
A user has said that he has started using ‘mypage’ as a variable name instead of ‘page’ and now he is not facing any issues related to pagination.
Here is what the WordPress contributor Sergey Biryukov exactly said
“It should only have a numeric value, and is not meant to be used for any other purpose, e.g. ?page=offers&id=xxx.
So I would recommend changing this variable in any custom code to some other name to avoid conflicts.
As another possible solution, you can disable the redirect_canonical() function for these requests, that is attached to the template_redirect action by default.”
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They also said I could go back to an earlier version of WP – but I. thinking that could cause other issues. In the meantime – my client is very unhappy since the blog does drive a lot of traffic to our page.
Thank you! Jana