I took a look at the index.php code and I’ll explain what’s going on. The theme author is using 2 custom new WP_Queries but is not doing anything with the main global $wp_query object. When you click to the second page you get the same posts because there is no main loop present. Neither of … Read more
Take a look at this tutorial: http://www.wpmods.com/easily-ajax-wordpress-pagination
You can try implementing ajax based pagination for wp-pagenavi plugin(see http://wordpressapi.com/2011/05/16/add-ajax-pagination-in-wordpress-blog/ for reference ). I think this will solve your issue.
wp_pagenavi( array( ‘query’ => $loop ) ); should work with the code above. Don’t hijack the main query if you can avoid it.
// get current page we are on. If not set we can assume we are on page 1. $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1; // are we on page one? if(1 == $paged) { //true }