How can I paginate this?

Well, I see three posts! 🙂 Just an idea, but maybe you only need to add the next/prev links? http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/posts_nav_link Edit: This (http://streakingpirates.com/pending/page/2) works for me, so I guess it must be the links you’re after!

How to get list of posts from permalinks?

There are several ways to achieve this, depending on the permalink structure of your posts. Assuming the post slug is part of the permalink structure, you can get the post slug from the post URL and fetch the corresponding post by using WP_Query with the name-parameter. Let’s assume the structure of the URLs is http://example.com/{post_slug}/. … Read more