Paginated Author.php not using Author.php template

Question

Ive created an author.php to show the author's posts, with pagination. When clicked the next button, takes me to page two but not using the same template. Any reason?

My query in author.php

$curauth = (get_query_var('author_name')) ? get_user_by('slug', get_query_var('author_name')) : get_userdata(get_query_var('author'));
$paged = ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
$args = array(
  'author'        =>  $curauth->ID,
  'orderby'       =>  'post_date',
  'order'         =>  'DSC',
  'paged'         => $paged,
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'posts_per_page' => 1, // there are more
  );

  $authors_posts = new WP_Query( $args );

Links:

<?php echo get_next_posts_link( 'Next', $authors_posts->max_num_pages ); ?>
<?php echo get_previous_posts_link( 'Previous' ); ?>

Answer 1

This is not fix for your issue is only an working example of what you can use for the author.php page.

<?php 
 $number   = 10;
 $paged    = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
 $offset   = ($paged - 1) * $number;
 $users    = get_users();
 $query    = get_users('&offset='.$offset.'&number='.$number);
 $total_users = count($users);
 $total_query = count($query);
 $total_pages = intval($total_users / $number) + 1;

 echo '<ul id="users">';

 foreach($query as $q) { ?>

 <li class="user clearfix">
   <div class="user-avatar">
    <?php echo get_avatar( $q->ID, 80 ); ?>  
  </div>
  <div class="user-data">

  <h4 class="user-name">
    <a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url($q->ID);?>">
      <?php echo get_the_author_meta('display_name', $q->ID);?>
    </a>
  </h4>

     <?php if (get_the_author_meta('description', $q->ID) != '') : ?>
    <p><?php echo get_the_author_meta('description', $q->ID); ?></p>
    <?php endif; ?>

   </div>
  </li>

  <?php } 

  echo '</ul>';

?>

<?php
  if ($total_users > $total_query) {
  echo '<div id="pagination" class="clearfix">';
  echo '<span class="pages">Pages:</span>';
  $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,
  'prev_next'    => false,
  'type'         => 'list',
  ));
  echo '</div>';
?>

You will also need to adjust the css classes to match your theme styling