WordPress create pagination for custom post types

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1. You need to add the “paged” parameter in the WP_Query().

   And add the paginate_links() for the navigation,

   Try this,

   // Exit if accessed directly
   if( !defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
       exit;
   }
   
   /**
    * News Archive Template
    */
   
   
    global $wp_query;
    $paged = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1;
     $wp_query = new WP_Query( array ('posts_per_page' => 6, 'post_type' => 'news', 'post_status' => array('publish'),
       'paged' => $paged,
      'tax_query' => array( 
           array(
               'taxonomy' => 'news_category',
               'field' => 'slug', 
               'terms' => array( $wp_query->query['news_category']),
               'include_children' => true,
               'operator' => 'IN'
           ),
       )));
   
   get_header(); ?>
   
   <div id="content-archive" >
   
       <?php if( have_posts() ) : ?>
   
           <?php while( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   
               <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
   
                   <?php if( is_single() ): ?>
                       <h1 class="entry-title post-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
                   <?php else: ?>
                       <h2 class="entry-title post-title"><a href="<?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
                   <?php endif; ?>
   
                   <div class="post-meta">
                   <?php       
                   printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted on </span>%2$s<span class="%3$s"> by </span>%4$s', 'responsive' ),
                   'meta-prep meta-prep-author posted',
                   sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><time class="timestamp updated" datetime="%3$s">%4$s</time></a>',
                            esc_url( get_permalink() ),
                            esc_attr( get_the_title() ),
                            esc_html( get_the_date('c')),
                            esc_html( get_the_date() )
                   ),
                   'byline',
                   sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></span>',
                            get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ),
                            sprintf( esc_attr__( 'View all posts by %s', 'responsive' ), get_the_author() ),
                            esc_attr( get_the_author() )
                   )
               ); 
               ?>
   
                   </div></div><!-- end of .post-meta -->
                   <!-- end of .post-entry -->
                   </div><!-- end of #post-<?php the_ID(); ?> -->
   
           <?php
           endwhile;
       else :
           echo "No posts here";
   
       endif;
       echo paginate_links();
       ?>
   </div>
   <!-- end of #content-archive -->
   
   <?php get_footer(); ?>
   

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2. Why don’t you use the default theme archive page? All you need to do to make it custom post type specific is copy the archive.php and rename it to archive-{posttype}.php

   Also – if you need anything specific to display on that post-type (like sidebars, menus, etc…) you can just edit that one single file.

   If you have a normal working pagination on your default archive page – this will work, and you can set the number of displayed post in your WP global admin options.

   If you don’t have a navigation implemented, I suggest using WP-PageNavi plugin.

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