paginate_links and query vars
Seems that the query string is coming from the base argument call to get_pagenum_link() so I have removed the query string component and re-add it with ‘add_args’. Like so: <?php echo paginate_links(array( ‘base’ => preg_replace(‘/\?.*/’, “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”, get_pagenum_link(1)) . ‘%_%’, ‘current’ => max(1, get_query_var(‘paged’)), ‘format’ => ‘page/%#%’, ‘total’ => $wp_query->max_num_pages, ‘add_args’ => array( ‘s’ => get_query_var(‘s’), … Read more