Pagination working everywhere but the index page

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Using Milo’s suggestion in the comments above fixed the issue. Using pre_get_posts we modify the loop like so.

function filter_main_query( $query ) {

    if( is_front_page() && is_main_query() ) {


        $query->set('meta_key', 'rating');
        $query->set('meta_value', 0 );
            // rest of params

    }

}
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'filter_main_query', 9999);