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I have created a custom archive.php page by adding some extra code to the default archive.php. I want to do pagination in that page but I don't know why it is not working.

I use wp-pagenavi plugin for pagination. It shows the page not found error when I click on the 2nd page. To be more understandable I am posting an image of what is happening.

The image below is what happens when the page loads. You can see the site address which I have marked in red:

Next is the image of what happens when I click on '2' to navigate to the 2nd page. As you can see the URL is ../?m=201303&paged=2.

Below is the code I use for the custom archive page:

<?php



get_header(); ?>



<div class="archive_page">



<?php 

    $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

    $args = array_merge( $wp_query->query, 

        array( 'cat' =>'-1,-8,-9',

        'posts_per_page'=>'2',

        'paged' =>$paged));

      query_posts( $args );

     ?>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>



 <header class="page-header">

 <h1 class="page-title">

 <?php if ( is_day() ) : ?>

 <?php printf( __( 'Daily Archives: %s', 'twentyeleven' ), '<span>' . get_the_date() . '</span>' ); ?>

<?php elseif ( is_month() ) : ?>

<?php printf( __( 'Monthly Archives: %s', 'twentyeleven' ), '<span>' . get_the_date( _x( 'F Y', 'monthly archives date format', 'twentyeleven' ) ) . '</span>' ); ?>

    <?php elseif ( is_year() ) : ?>

<?php printf( __( 'Yearly Archives: %s', 'twentyeleven' ), '<span>' . get_the_date( _x( 'Y', 'yearly archives date format', 'twentyeleven' ) ) . '</span>' ); ?>

<?php else : ?>

<?php _e( 'Blog Archives', 'twentyeleven' ); ?>

    <?php endif; ?>

</h1>

    </header>

<div id="navig">

    <?php if (function_exists('wp_pagenavi')){wp_pagenavi();}?>

</div>

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<div id="all_posts">

    <div id="auth_ava">

    <?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), '65');?>

    </div>

    <div class="post_title_archive">

    <?php 

    the_title();

    ?>

    </div>

       <div id="name_date_coment_tag">

           <div id="auth_dis_name">

        <?php the_author_posts_link();?>

       </div>

    <div class="border">|</div>

    <div id="posted_date_archive">

        <?php 

        the_time('F j, Y');

         ?> 

    </div>

    <div class="border">|</div>

    <div class="categories">

        Categories: <?php the_category(', '); ?> 

    </div>

    <div class="border">|</div>

    <div id="tags_archive">

        <?php 

            the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); 

        ?> 

    </div>

    </div>

    </div>

        <div class="excerpt_archive">

    <?php 

        the_excerpt();

    ?>

    </div>

    <?php endwhile; ?>

    <div id="navig">

       <?php if (function_exists('wp_pagenavi')){wp_pagenavi();}?>

    </div>

    <?php else : ?>

    <article id="post-0" class="post no-results not-found">

        <header class="entry-header">

    <h1 class="entry-title"><?php _e( 'Nothing Found', 'twentyeleven' ); ?></h1>

    </header>

    <div class="entry-content">

         <p><?php _e( 'Apologies, but no results were found for the requested archive. Perhaps searching will help find a related post.', 'twentyeleven' ); ?></p>

        <?php get_search_form(); ?>

        </div>

    </article>

        <?php endif; ?>

    </div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

I am really sorry for a long question. I hope it is clear what I want to achieve.

Just try with the following :

<?php

//the query using arguments above

        $wp_query = new WP_Query( $args );



        //use the query for paging

        $wp_query->query_vars[ 'paged' ] > 1 ? $current = $wp_query->query_vars[ 'paged' ] : $current = 1;



        //set the "paginate_links" array to do what we would like it it. Check the codex for examples http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/paginate_links

        $pagination = array(

            'base' => @add_query_arg( 'paged', '%#%' ),

            //'format' => '',

            'showall' => false,

            'end_size' => 4,

            'mid_size' => 4,

            'total' => $wp_query->max_num_pages,

            'current' => $current,

            'type' => 'plain'

        );



        //build the paging links

        if ( $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() )

            $pagination[ 'base' ] = user_trailingslashit( trailingslashit( remove_query_arg( 's', get_pagenum_link( 1 ) ) ) . 'page/%#%/', 'paged' );



        //more paging links

        if ( !empty( $wp_query->query_vars[ 's' ] ) )

            $pagination[ 'add_args' ] = array( 's' => get_query_var( 's' ) );



        //run the query

        if ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : $wp_query->the_post();

?>

Also refer the following locations :

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/32100/pagination-on-a-custom-page-template

And

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-archive-page-pagination-isnt-working

I think this may help you to resolve your problem.