How to implement wordpress pagination - wordpress

Question

I have looked for pagination scripts and put them in the code below but nothing works, how do I implement pagination below?
'<?php
$args = array( 'posts_per_page' => 10 );
$lastposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach ( $lastposts as $post ) :
setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
<div id="pbox">
<div id="pthumb"><?php the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail', array('class' => 'mythumbnail')); ?></div>
<div id="pcontent">
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?><br />
Post Category: <b><?php the_category( ', ' ); ?></b>
</div>
</div>
<?php endforeach;
wp_reset_postdata(); ?>'

Answer 1

Try This :
You need to pass paged parameter inside argument.and then pass max_num_pages in function paginate_links
$paged = ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
$args = array( 'posts_per_page' => 10 ,'paged'=>$paged);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
while ($the_query ->have_posts()) : $the_query -> the_post();
?>
<div id="pbox">
<div id="pthumb"><?php the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail', array('class' => 'mythumbnail')); ?></div>
<div id="pcontent">
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?><br />
Post Category: <b><?php the_category( ', ' ); ?></b>
</div>
</div>
<?php
endwhile;
$big = 999999999; // need an unlikely integer
echo paginate_links( array(
'base' => str_replace( $big, '%#%', esc_url( get_pagenum_link( $big ) ) ),
'format' => '?paged=%#%',
'current' => max( 1, get_query_var('paged') ),
'total' => $the_query->max_num_pages
) );
wp_reset_query();