I think I’ve understood your question, and I hope this can help. To display a hero section with the most recent posts without interfering with the main loop and pagination, you can use a combination of WP_Query for the hero section and pre_get_posts() to modify the main query. Here’s the code to achieve this: // … Read more
Multiple WP_Query with pagination shows Page/2 content on the remaining pages
To address your concern about controlling the URL parameters in pagination links in WordPress, it’s true that both the_posts_pagination() and paginate_links() functions can inherit existing query parameters from the current URL. This behavior is designed to maintain the context of the current query, including any filters or search terms, across paginated pages. However, if you … Read more
You registered your post type correctly, the problem is a common pitfall many new WordPress developers fall into, you created a second new query to change the posts WP displays, rather than modifying the original. Why It’s Broken A lot of people don’t understand the main query and think that if they want to change … Read more
Trying to create a cutom query with pagination and page 2 breaking. Any help?
Issues with Ajax Pagination and Filtering
“Page not found” while on page 2 from pagination menu
Are you making changes to the query in the template at all? If you modify the main query you often have to include “Paged” parameter, as explained here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Pagination If WP_Query is altering the main loop and the “paged” parameter is not set you’ll need to add it with get_query_var(). This is so WordPress knows … Read more
Never use new WP_Query for the main query of an archive template. WordPress has already queried the correct posts and things like pagination are based on that query. If you want to modify that query you should use the pre_get_posts to modify the main query before it is run. The hook runs on every query … Read more
The issue I’m having is with the pagination on category pages, e.g. /release-notes/category/upgrades/, where pages 2 and beyond return a 404. That’s because your custom rewrite rule does not support paged requests, i.e. it’s missing the RegEx ( regular expression pattern ) and query for the paged parameter. So you can either add another rewrite … Read more