How to page a custom query in wordpress From http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/57884/pagination-is-not-working-wp-query-custom-fields-values

custom_paged_query.php

global $paged;
$temp = $wp_query;
                    $wp_query = null;

                    $wp_query = new WP_Query( array( 'meta_key' => 'wpcf-gender', 'meta_value' => '1', 'meta_compare' => '==', 'post_type' => 'profile','posts_per_page' => 2, 'paged' => $paged ) );