Can't get this to work on a custom post type

yikes! I didn’t mean for my code to be formatted so wild. let me see if I can clean that up:

`
<?php $args = array (‘post_type’ => ‘portfolio’, ‘paged’=>$paged);
$wp_query = new WP_Query ( $args );
?>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
<div class=”grid_size col-xs-6 col-sm-3″></div>
<?php /* Start the Loop */ ?>
<?php while ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>
<?php get_template_part( ‘template-parts/content’, ‘project_list’ ); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php
the_posts_pagination( array(
‘prev_text’ => __( ‘Previous page’, ‘benoit_2015’ ),
‘next_text’ => __( ‘Next page’, ‘benoit_2015’ ),
‘before_page_number’ => ‘<span class=”meta-nav screen-reader-text”>’ . __( ‘Page’, ‘benoit_2015’ ) . ‘ </span>’,
) );
?>

<?php else : ?>

<?php get_template_part( ‘template-parts/content’, ‘none’ ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>’

Unfortunately my site is not live at the moment. But yes, there is a separate template file being used for this post type, and the loop on that page looks like:

<?php $args = array ('post_type' => 'portfolio', 'paged' => $paged);
					$wp_query = new WP_Query ( $args );
				?>

				<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

					<?php /* Start the Loop */ ?>
					<?php while ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>
						<?php

							$termsArray = get_the_terms($post->ID, "project_type");
							$termsString = "";
								foreach ($termsArray as $term) {
									$termsString .= $term->slug.' ';
								}

							get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', 'project_list' );
						?>

					<?php endwhile; ?>

I can confirm that pagination is working on this template without the plugin. It’s just that the plugin is not replacing the pagination on this template with the “Load More Posts” link the way that it does on index.php and my taxonomies page.

Thanks,

-Nick