Problem with paginate_links

Hi!

I’m trying to paginate a custom loop that displays all comments by a specific user, but everything seems to be working properly except for the actual links to the pages which is produced by paginate_links. If I manually hard code the $page variable everything works fine.

As an example if I click a page number it redirects to mydomain.com/3/user?=1234 (user is an existing query variable on the page)

Ideally it would redirect to something like mydomain.com/user?=1234&page=3 but it seems to be ignoring all of the arguments I input into the paginate_links function.

Here is my code – any help or insight would be appreciated. Thanks!:

define(‘DEFAULT_COMMENTS_PER_PAGE’,5);
$page = (get_query_var(‘page’)) ? get_query_var(‘page’) : 1;;
$limit = DEFAULT_COMMENTS_PER_PAGE;
$offset = ($page * $limit) – $limit;

$total_comments = get_comments(array(‘orderby’ => ‘post_date’ ,
‘order’ => ‘DESC’,
‘user_id’ => $user_ID,));

//poll the database to get all the comments by this user id
$args = array(
‘user_id’ => $user_ID,
‘offset’=>$offset,
‘number’=>$limit,
);

$comments = get_comments($args);
$pages = ceil(count($total_comments)/DEFAULT_COMMENTS_PER_PAGE);?>
<div class=”profile_comments”>
<h2>Recent Activity: </h2> <?php
foreach($comments as $comment) : ?>
//the code to print individual comments – not important here
</div></div> <?php
endforeach;
?> </div>
</span>

<?php
$args = array(
‘base’ => @add_query_arg(‘page’,’%#%’),
‘format’ => ‘page/%#%’,
‘total’ => $pages,
‘current’ => $page,
‘show_all’ => False,
‘end_size’ => 1,
‘mid_size’ => 2,
‘prev_next’ => True,
‘prev_text’ => __(‘Previous’),
‘next_text’ => __(‘Next’),
‘type’ => ‘plain’);

// ECHO THE PAGENATION
echo paginate_links( $args );
?>