Pagination only displaying first page with custom loop/wp_query

  • Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere but nothing I turned up was useful for this problem.

    I have a custom loop that’s pulling in posts from various different post types. This is everything in my loop before the content…

    <?php
            $paged = ( get_query_var('page') ) ? get_query_var('page') : 1;
            $query_args = array(
              'post_type' => array ('post' , 'reviews' , 'trailer' , 'feature'),
              'posts_per_page' => 3,
              'paged' => $paged
            );
            $the_query = new WP_Query( $query_args );
          ?>

          <?php if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>

    And this is my current pagination set up…

    <?php if ($the_query->max_num_pages > 1) { // check if the max number of pages is greater than 1  ?>
            <nav class="prev-next-posts">
              <div class="prev-posts-link">
                <?php echo get_next_posts_link( 'Older Entries', $the_query->max_num_pages ); // display older posts link ?>
              </div>
              <div class="next-posts-link">
                <?php echo get_previous_posts_link( 'Newer Entries' ); // display newer posts link ?>
              </div>
            </nav>
          <?php } ?>

    The ‘Older Entries’ link shows up but doesn’t actually link to any older posts.

    I have tried various different ways to add numbered pagination and couldn’t get that working at all, even with WP-PageNavi plugin so I’ve reverted back to the default pagination but still no luck.

    Any help would be much appreciated.

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