Pagination in Wordpress home.php - php

Question

Pagination isn't working in a Wordpress blog. I've tracked the specific file responsible, to home.php.
The original blog page displays posts fine (10 at a time), however as mentioned pagination isn't working.
<?php
/**
Category Page
*/
get_header(); ?>
<div class="container-fluid blogs post-section" id="blogs">
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-9 col-lg-8">
<?php echo category_description( $category_id ); ?>
<div class="category-posts">
<?php
$args = array(
"post_type" => "post",
"post_status" => "publish",
"posts_per_page" => "10",
"orderby" => "date",
"order" => "DESC"
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
if ($query->have_posts()) : while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post(); ?>
<div class="col-sm-12">
<div class="inner-post">
<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { ?><div class="thumbnail col-sm-4" style="background:none!important;"><?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?></div><?php } ?>
<div class="abso custom_abso col-sm-8"><div class="inner-box">
<div class="date">
<?php
$archive_year = get_the_time('Y');
$archive_month = get_the_time('M');
$archive_day = get_the_time('d');
?>
<span class="month"><?php echo $archive_month; ?></span> <span class="day"><?php echo $archive_day; ?>,</span><span class="year"><?php echo $archive_year; ?></span>
</div>
<h2 style="margin-top:0;"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="readmores">Read More <i class="fa fa-caret-right" aria-hidden="true"></i>
</a></p>
</div>
<?php endwhile; endif;
?></div>
<div class="pagination text-center">
<?php the_posts_pagination( array( 'mid_size' => 2 ) ); ?>
</div>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
</div></div></div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Based on this Wordpress documentation, I've updated the top of the file, to look like the following:
<div class="category-posts">
<?php $args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 10,
'offset' => 0,
'cat' => '',
'category_name' => '',
'orderby' => 'date',
'order' => 'DESC',
'include' => '',
'exclude' => '',
'meta_key' => '',
'meta_value' => '',
'post_type' => 'post',
'post_mime_type' => '',
'post_parent' => '',
'author' => '',
'author_name' => '',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'suppress_filters' => true,
'fields' => '',
);
$posts_array = get_posts( $args ); ?>
<div class="col-sm-12">
This has worked, in that the pagination buttons work, however, only one post is displayed per page:
Any advice on how to display 10 posts per page?

Answer 1

Please add the following parameter 'paged'. It sets pagination query variable. The pagination is works as per this parameter.
'paged' => ( get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1)
to the $args.