I’m trying to get custom archive posts and default posts combined onto one archive page which I have managed… sort of but I can’t get pagination to work either using the pagenavi plugin or the themes default pagination code. I have tried using paged but if anything did show I’m then not sure it would page both categories together or just one.

I need to combine two categories, one a custom taxonomy, the other the default and then have them styled differently and have a set number of the combined posts on the page and to be able have them in pages of 9 posts.

code I’m using:

            <?php if (is_category()) { ?>
                <h1 class="page-title">
                <span><?php _e(); ?></span> <?php single_cat_title(); ?>
                </h1>
            <?php } ?>
                <ul>
                    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
                    <?php get_template_part( 'partials/loop', 'archive' ); ?>
                    <?php endwhile; ?>
                </ul>

            <?php rewind_posts(); ?>

            <?php
            $args = array(
            'post_type' => 'events',
            'posts_per_page' => '6',
            'paged' => $paged,
            'tax_query' => array(
            array(
            'taxonomy' => 'event_cat','events',
            'field' => 'slug',
            'terms' => 'events','upcoming-events'
            )
            )
            );?>
            <?php $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); ?>
                <ul>
                    <?php if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) :
                    while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
                    <?php get_template_part( 'partials/loop', 'archive-events' ); ?>
                    <?php endwhile; ?>
                </ul>

            <?php wp_pagenavi(); ?>

            <?php else : ?>
            <?php get_template_part( 'partials/content', 'missing' ); ?>
            <?php endif; ?>

Changed the above to:

                        <?php if (is_category()) { ?>

                        <h1 class="page-title">
                            <span><?php _e(); ?></span> <?php single_cat_title(); ?>
                        </h1>
                    <?php } ?>

                        <ul class="small-block-grid-1 medium-block-grid-2 large-block-grid-3">

                            <?php $query = new WP_Query( array( 'cat' => '7' )); ?>


                            <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
                            <?php get_template_part( 'partials/loop', 'archive' ); ?>
                            <?php endwhile; ?>
                        </ul>

                        <?php else : ?>
                        <?php get_template_part( 'partials/content', 'missing' ); ?>
                        <?php endif; ?>

                        <?php rewind_posts(); ?>

                 <?php

                $args = array(
                'post_type' => 'events',
                'posts_per_page' => '3',
                'paged' => get_query_var( 'paged' ),
                'tax_query' => array(
                array(
                'taxonomy' => 'event_cat',
                'field' => 'slug',
                'terms' => 'events'
                )
                )
                );?>

                <?php $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); ?>

                        <ul class="small-block-grid-1 medium-block-grid-2 large-block-grid-3">
                            <?php if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) :
                            while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
                            <?php get_template_part( 'partials/loop', 'archive-events' ); ?>
                            <?php endwhile; ?>
                        </ul>
                        <?php if (function_exists('joints_page_navi')) { ?>
                        <?php wp_pagenavi(); ?>
                        <?php } else { ?>
                        <nav class="wp-prev-next">
                            <ul class="clearfix">
                                <li class="prev-link"><?php next_posts_link(__('&laquo; Older Entries', "jointstheme")) ?></li>
                                <li class="next-link"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer Entries &raquo;', "jointstheme")) ?></li>
                            </ul>
                        </nav>
                        <?php } ?>

                        <?php endif; ?>