[Plugin: WP-PageNavi] Custom query & form submit – part 2

I stumbled on the same problem as reported in osterman’s post.

I am using a form to create a custom query that displays posts from a custom post type archive matching a certain custom field (Eg: For “custom-post-type” show only posts that have the “custom-field” value selected from the form). I know, it’s called filtering ??

In ostman’s post the solution was to use the “get” method instead of the “post” one, but noone’s giving more details ??

Here’s my situation:

My custom post type archive looks like this:

www.example.com/custom-post-type-archive

(note that I use the “post name” permalink setting)

Upon form submission, the new url is this:

www.example.com/custom-post-type-archive?key=value

The custom query is set to show only posts with value of key custom field:

$value = $_GET['value'];
$paged = get_query_var('page');
$args = array(
		'post_type' => 'custom-post-type',
		'meta_key' => 'key',
		'meta_value' => $value,
		'paged' => $paged,
		'posts_per_page' => 10
);
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);

After the loop I have:

wp_pagenavi(array('query' => $my_query));
wp_reset_postdata();

The query works, I get the right results. But I have problems getting pagination to work. When I go to the next page, I get this url:

www.example.com/custom-post-type-archive/page/2?key=value

but pagination still shows like I’m on the first page and the results are the same.

If I manually enter
www.example.com/custom-post-type-archive?key=value&page=2
I get the right results(from page 2), but the all navigation links are the same as the url.

Please help (hints, resources, anything).
Thx,
Radu

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