'publish',
'author' => $current_auth,
'posts_per_page' => $post_limit,
'paged' => $paged1,
'orderby' => 'comment_count',
'meta_key' => 'featured_checkbox',
'meta_value' => 'on',
'order' => 'DESC'
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post();
featured_post();
endwhile;
echo paginate_links(array(
'format' => '?page=%#%',
'current' => $paged1,
'total' => $query->max_num_pages,
'prev_text' => __('«',
'blogspring'),
'next_text' => __('»',
'blogspring'),
'type' => 'list',
));
wp_reset_query();
wp_reset_postdata();
?>