Cannot go back to the first paginated page using pagination links

To get the canonical (not ?page=1) reference URL to start the pagination from you have to change

'base' => '%_%'

to

'base' => get_pagenum_link() . '%_%' // get_pagenum_link() default is '1'

which will give you the first page of paginated posts and %_% will be replaced by 'format' parameter on the next pages.

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