Loop increase in while loop not working

You’re reassigning 1 to $i on every loop:

if ( $i = 1) {

This should be

if ( $i == 1) {

or even

if ( $i === 1) {

which will also compare the post type, which is best practice.

In PHP, = is assignment, == is comparison:

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