Hi Jarad

I had a quick look. How are you generating your pagination links?

Can you try to use the default WordPress links (for older/newer) as a test?

https://codex.wordpress.org/Pagination

Basically, S&F doesn’t do anything to you pagination in this scenario – the pagination is being created in the absolute standard way your theme would do for any other page.

Now if your theme uses its own custom pagination, there may be problems in the way this is generated.

To allow pagination, and keep things in the URL like post_types all S&F (and other plugins) have to do is register the variables so they are “remembered” – https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_query_arg/

It looks like somethign strange is happening in your setup, even a possible double encoding of the URL:

s=how+it+works&post_types=rcrtv#038;post_types=rcrtv/page/2

Whatever is “making” your pagination links isn’t doing it properly I don’t believe – and not accomodating for other WP usage…

Please try to use the above functions I reference (I know you don’t want those, but as a test, because the WordPress pagination functions handle these things properly)….

If this works, but of course you don’t want this kind of pagination – I suggest integrating the wp_pagenavi plugin – which allows for numbering like you have:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pagenavi/

Thanks!

Cool no worries, glad you got it sorted 🙂