The site wont go past the first page it redirects back to page 1 this is the code for the template used

• Blog Pagination
  */
  function ptp_blog_pagination_bar() {
  global $blog_query;

  $total_pages = $blog_query->max_num_pages;

  if ($total_pages > 1){
  $current_page = max(1, get_query_var(‘paged’));

    echo paginate_links(array(
        'base' => get_pagenum_link(1) . '%_%',
        'format' => 'page/%#%',
        'current' => $current_page,
        'total' => $total_pages,
    ));
  

  }
  }

/**

• Pagination
  */

function ptp_numeric_posts_nav() {

global $ptp_query;

/** Stop execution if there's only 1 page */
if( $ptp_query->max_num_pages <= 1 )
    return;

$paged = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? absint( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) : 1;
$max   = intval( $ptp_query->max_num_pages );

/** Add current page to the array */
if ( $paged >= 1 )
    $links[] = $paged;

/** Add the pages around the current page to the array */
if ( $paged >= 3 ) {
    $links[] = $paged - 1;
    $links[] = $paged - 2;
}

if ( ( $paged + 2 ) <= $max ) {
    $links[] = $paged + 2;
    $links[] = $paged + 1;
}

echo '<div class="num-nav"><ul>' . "n";

/** Previous Post Link */
if ( get_previous_posts_link() )
    printf( '<li>%s</li>' . "n", get_previous_posts_link() );

/** Link to first page, plus ellipses if necessary */
if ( ! in_array( 1, $links ) ) {
    $class = 1 == $paged ? ' class="active"' : '';

    printf( '<li%s><a href="%s">%s</a></li>' . "n", $class, esc_url( get_pagenum_link( 1 ) ), '1' );

    if ( ! in_array( 2, $links ) )
        echo '<li>…</li>';