custom taxonomy pagination 404 (attachments)

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I created a taxonomy for the media area, so I could assign all my images to specific categories. All is working fine with my taxonomy page, until I try to go to page 2, at which point, it throws a 404.

I have tried about 8,000 different rewrite rules functions that I've found over the last couple of days. I have updated permalinks about 9,000 times. But it persists to give me a 404 when I click on the 2nd page link.

Here is my taxonomy function first:

    add_action( 'init', 'create_media_hierarchical_taxonomy', 0 );

    function create_media_hierarchical_taxonomy() {

      $labels = array(
        'name' => _x( 'Media Categories', 'taxonomy general name' ),
        'singular_name' => _x( 'Media Category', 'taxonomy singular name' ),
        'search_items' =>  __( 'Search Media Categories' ),
        'all_items' => __( 'All Media Categories' ),
        'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Media Category' ),
        'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Media Category:' ),
        'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Media Category' ), 
        'update_item' => __( 'Update Media Category' ),
        'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Media Category' ),
        'new_item_name' => __( 'New Media Category' ),
        'menu_name' => __( 'Media Categories' ),
      );    

      register_taxonomy('mediacat','attachment', array(
        'hierarchical' => true,
        'exclude_from_search' => false,
        'labels' => $labels,
        'show_ui' => true,
        'show_admin_column' => true,
        'query_var' => true,
        'public' => true,
        'publicly_queryable' => true,
        'capability_type' => 'attachment',
        'has_archive' => true,
        'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'imagetags' ),
        'update_count_callback' => '_update_post_cat_count',
        'show_in_rest' => true
      ));
    }

And here's the whole of my taxonomy-mediacat php file

    get_header();

            >
                
                    
                        
                            term_id;
                            $current_name = $term->name;
                            $current_taxonomy = $term->taxonomy;
                            $current_parent = $term->parent;

                            echo ''.$current_name.'';

                            $sub_terms = get_terms( array(
                                'taxonomy' => $current_taxonomy,
                                'child_of' => $current_term_id,
                                'hide_empty' => false,
                            ) );

                            if ($sub_terms) {
                            ?>
                            
                                
                                name?>
                                
                            

                            

                            
                                
                                    
                                        
                                             'attachment',
                                                    'post_mime_type' => 'image',
                                                    'tax_query'       => array(
                                                        array(
                                                            'taxonomy' => $term->taxonomy,
                                                            'field' => 'term_id',
                                                            'terms' => $term_id
                                                        )
                                                    )
                                                    'orderby' => 'title',
                                                    'order' => 'asc',
                                                    'posts_per_page' => '20',
                                                    'paged' => $paged,
                                                    'post_status' => 'inherit'
                                                );

                                                $loop = new WP_Query( $args );

                                            ?>
                                            Page:  str_replace( $big, '%#%', esc_url( get_pagenum_link( $big ) ) ),
                                                    'format' => '?paged=%#%',
                                                    'current' => max( 1, get_query_var('paged') ),
                                                    'total' => $loop->max_num_pages,
                                                    'before_page_number' => ''.$translated.' '
                                                ) );
                                            ?>
                                        
                                    

                                    
                                        
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                    

                                    
                                        

                                            
                                                
                                                have_posts() ) {
                                                    while ( $loop->have_posts() ) {
                                                        $loop->the_post();

                                                        $i = 0;
                                                        $item = get_the_id();
                                                        $atts = wp_get_attachment_image_src($item, 'full');
                                                        $image_all = wp_prepare_attachment_for_js($item);
                                                        $attachment_page = wp_get_attachment_url( $item );
                                                        $title = wp_prepare_attachment_for_js($item);
                                                        $image_title = wp_prepare_attachment_for_js($item);
                                                ?>

                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    keywords: 
                                                    
                                                    
                                                        
                                                        
                                                    
                                                    
                                                

                                                
                                                
                                                    
                                                        
                                                            
                                                                
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                
                                                                    
                                                                        
                                                                    
                                                                    
                                                                        
                                                                            
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                            keywords: 
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                            
                                                                        
                                                                    
                                                                
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                
                                                            
                                                        
                                                    
                                                
                                                        
                                            

                                            
                                    

                                    
                                        
                                            Page:  str_replace( $big, '%#%', esc_url( get_pagenum_link( $big ) ) ),
                                                    'format' => '?paged=%#%',
                                                    'current' => max( 1, get_query_var('paged') ),
                                                    'total' => $loop->max_num_pages,
                                                    'before_page_number' => ''.$translated.' '
                                                ) );
                                            ?>

A couple of notes in order to maybe understand why I'm doing this:

This site is for our field marketing personnel to be able to see what we have in our image library, see choices for posters, social media images that have been created, property photos, etc. Thus the need for a taxonomy. I wanted to avoid creating pages with a shortcode, only because we may need to create more and more categories over time. If, however, I'm unable to get the pagination to work for this custom taxonomy, I will go ahead and do the shortcode on pages (I had it working this way just fine on a previous version of the site that didn't require categories).

We also want our field people to be able to suggest other keywords for images, and to be able to easily copy the file name for referencing in tasks they post for us designers. Right now, our top 5 parent categories are displayed on the homepage via Advanced Custom Fields selectors in Admin.

In any case, that may all be superfluous information here, but I thought it might help to understand WHY I'm trying to do it this way.

OH! One unrelated additional issue I'm having with the taxonomy is that the count doesn't update when I've added images to them. I have to manually run a SQL query in order for the counts in the taxonomy to update. I doubt that's related to this particular pagination issue, but I thought it was perhaps worth mentioning.

I just really need to get this pagination issue fixed up though. If that can be solved, then I'm golden!

custom taxonomy pagination 404 (attachments)

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