How to add Pagination and resolve same posts on multiple pages on ANY theme

I came across this problem and found a bunch of threads on it, but no one really answered the question so I am going to state it very blatantly

You have a query problem. Somewhere in your code, your loop is using query() to call the loop and this makes it impossible to paginate

Some people suggested changing

<?php endwhile; ?>
to
<?php endwhile; wp_reset_query(); ?>

Essentially resetting the loop and allowing pagination to occur. This worked for me on the WOO THEME PREMIUM NEWS THEME but every page ended up showing me the same posts.

I then found This article that really explained it to me and after some fiddling, I finally got the code to work!

This is a How-To specifically for that dreaded WOO Theme Premium News

1) Install and activate any pagination plugin

2) Edit Blog.php (or default.php if you have 2 columns) like this:

The loop immediately begins with this code:
$the_query = new WP_Query('cat=-'. $GLOBALS[ex_feat] . ',-' . $GLOBALS[ex_vid] . '&showposts=' . get_option('woo_other_entries') . '&orderby=post_date&order=desc');

Right above that add the following code

$temp = $the_query;
 $the_query= null;
 $the_query = new WP_Query();

Then alter the loop to this:
$the_query-><strong>query</strong>('cat=-'. $GLOBALS[ex_feat] . ',-' . $GLOBALS[ex_vid] . '&showposts=' . get_option('woo_other_entries') . '&orderby=post_date&order=desc'.'<strong>&paged='.$paged</strong>);

Stuff happens … before the end of the document alter

</div><!--/post-->
<?php endwhile; ?>

to

</div><!--/post-->
<?php endwhile; wp_reset_query(); ?>

3) and finally remove the archive coding and change it to this

<div class="fix"></div>
<p class="ar hl3">
<strong>PLUGIN CODE GOES HERE</strong>
</p>
<strong><?php $wp_query = null; $wp_query = $temp;?></strong>

BAM! pagination on premium news theme