paginate_links() outputs “paged=” to link instead of “page=”

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I’ve been having a sever and completely unsolvable problem with pagination.

I did notice however this interesting point:

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I search a keyword like cute: 

?s=cute&submit=Search&post_type=image&paged=2

…is where the link leads to. “Paged=” gives 404 on random pages. But if I modify the URL to say page= 

?s=cute&submit=Search&post_type=image&page=2

Every page destination works, bringing joy to my heart, but the pagination tab list always sticks at 0 (not reflecting current page).

I feel like I’m playing a “shell game” with code and settings, with wordpress bamboozling me.

Question reduces to:

How can I get &page= to be output in every case? Conversely, if &paged= should be the way it goes, how do I get it to work without 404s?!?!

This is a problem I’ve dealt with for almost 3 months now. People are shy to answer.

update:

Trying to deal with this paged variable in the URL which breaks pagination, I created a filter to simply replace it with page. 

function symbiostock_pagination_mod( $args ){

    $args = str_replace('paged=', 'page=', $args);

    return $args;
    }

add_filter( 'paginate_links', 'symbiostock_pagination_mod', 1 );

Would seem like a great idea! But then this happens with every new click: 

?s=cute&post_type=image&page=2&page=2

?s=cute&post_type=image&page=2&page=3

So where is this being modded, and why?

update:

I’m not sure if I’m the only one that has ever had this problem, but I did solve it (at least for myself) you can see the solution below. Also thanks for the help given. 😀

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  1. So here is what I came up with…we might as well call it a hack or work-around because its unknown if this was indeed a bug I’m dealing with (from wordpress itself) or just a perfectly hidden problem in my theme’s code.

    The below function filters the ‘paginate_links()‘ function and achieves this:

    1. I see paged variable generates 404 randomly on search pages, but works fine on archive and taxonomy pages. So, we check that. if_search(), we do our changes…

    2. If this is a search, we get the would-be page # destination using regex (or simply string replace paged to page, depending on permalink structure. We use remove_query_var() to drop faulty variable, and add_query_var() to put the working one.

      This is being done because in this strange case, page always generates proper results.

    3. Then we return the edited destination link, and life is good.

    Function below:

    add_filter( 'paginate_links', 'my_search_pagination_mod', 1 );

function my_search_pagination_mod( $link )
{

    if ( is_search() ) {
        
        $pattern = '/page/([0-9]+)//';
        
        if ( preg_match( $pattern, $link, $matches ) ) {
            $number = $matches[ 1 ];
            
            $link = remove_query_arg( 'paged' );
            
            $link = add_query_arg( 'page', $number );
            
        } else {
            
            $link = str_replace( 'paged', 'page', $link );
            
        }
        
    }

    return $link;
}

    Also thanks to some help I got here with the regular expression: PHP Regular Expression Help: A quick way to extract the 2 from “page/2/”