Not loading posts

Hey great plugin

Trying to get it to work in a Query loop

heres my code

<div class="content-container">

<?php
$paged = ( get_query_var('page') ) ? get_query_var('page') : 1;
$args = array(
'post_type' => array( 'post', 'review'),
'posts_per_page' => 8,
'paged' => $paged
);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
?>
<?php $post_counter=0; ?>
<?php if ( $the_query->have_posts('paged') ) : ?>
<?php while ( $the_query->have_posts('paged') ) : $the_query->the_post('paged'); ?>

<div id="post-item"><div class="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

<a href="<?php echo the_permalink(); ?>">

   <div class="post-image">

             <span class="wrapper-1">

              <?php
		echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'plant-thumb');
              ?>
                   <span>

                    <?php
                      // Get the Name of First Category
                      $category = get_the_category();
                      echo $category[0]->cat_name;
                    ?>

                   </span>

             </span>

   <div class="item-overlay">

      <div class="post-title"><h4 class="title"><?php the_title(); ?></h4></div>	

      <div class="post-author">

      <h2>by</h2><?php echo get_the_author(); ?>

      </div> <!-- post author -->

      <div class="post-date">

      <h2>on</h2><?php echo get_the_date(); ?>

      </div> <!-- post-date -->   

   </div> <!-- item-overlay -->  

   </div> <!-- post-image -->

</a>

</div> <!-- post-ID -->
</div> <!-- post-item -->

<?php
$post_counter++;
if ($post_counter == 8) { ?>

<div class="ad-box-300x250">

<SCRIPT language="Javascript">
var cpmstar_rnd=Math.round(Math.random()*999999);
var cpmstar_pid=57604;
document.writeln("<SCR"+"IPT language='Javascript' src='//server.cpmstar.com/view.aspx?poolid="+cpmstar_pid+"&script=1&rnd="+cpmstar_rnd+"'></SCR"+"IPT>");
</SCRIPT>
</div>

<?php } ?> 

		<?php endwhile; ?>
<div class="post-pagination">

<div class="post-next">
</div>
</div>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' ); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

</div>	<!-- content-container -->

It comes up with “no posts to show” under the first loop. How do i fix this? thanks

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https://wordpress.org/plugins/unlimited/