wp query - Limit home post to 10 without creating pagination?

I'm trying to display the last 10 posts only on the home without wp creating /page/2, /page/3, archives.

I've been testing and it seems if you disable pagination it will just grab everything crashing the server. (Don't do this at home).

if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
    $query->set( 'posts_per_page', 10 );
    $query->set( 'nopaging' , true );

    }

Someone suggested " no_found_rows=true" that doesn't do it either.

Is this just impossible to do? It seems like it will either create the pages or show all, there's no way to "LIMIT" it?

I'm trying to display the last 10 posts only on the home without wp creating /page/2, /page/3, archives.

I've been testing and it seems if you disable pagination it will just grab everything crashing the server. (Don't do this at home).

if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
    $query->set( 'posts_per_page', 10 );
    $query->set( 'nopaging' , true );

    }

Someone suggested " no_found_rows=true" that doesn't do it either.

Is this just impossible to do? It seems like it will either create the pages or show all, there's no way to "LIMIT" it?

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Share Improve this question asked Oct 3, 2018 at 21:00 Michael RogersMichael Rogers 54988 silver badges3737 bronze badges 3

• You'd need to modify your theme to do this, modifying the query changes what's fetched, not how it's displayed – Tom J Nowell ♦ Commented Oct 3, 2018 at 21:54
• I want to fetch 10 not fetch all and display 10. – Michael Rogers Commented Oct 3, 2018 at 21:59
• I'm also starting to think that perhaps what you are looking at is different from what you intend to show. – user2015 Commented Oct 3, 2018 at 22:09

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If you want to prevent the API from generating pagination links, you can use the found_posts filter to make WordPress think there are never more than 10 posts returned from the current query.

add_filter( 'found_posts', 'wpd_disable_home_pagination', 10, 2 );
function wpd_disable_home_pagination( $found_posts, $query ) {
    if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() && $found_posts > 10 ) {
        return 10;
    }
    return $found_posts;
}

EDIT-

You could redirect any paginated URL:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'wpd_redirect_pagination_urls', 10, 2 );
function wpd_redirect_pagination_urls( $query ) {
    if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_paged() ) {
        wp_redirect( get_post_type_archive_link( 'post' ) );
        exit;
    }
}

This is a mistake it will retrieve of posts:

  $query->set( 'nopaging' , true );

What you should do instead is:

if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
    $query->set( 'posts_per_page', 10 );
    $query->set( 'paged', '1'); // Makes /page/2/, etc links redirect to home
    $query->set( 'no_found_rows', true ); // Avoid counting rows, faster processing.  

    }

If your theme is still rendering the navigation buttons you'll have to add some logic to hide them on the pages you disabled pagination, for me it was the home page:

if (!is_home()) {
// show pagination buttons
}

The nopaging parameter is used to show all posts or use pagination (https://codex.wordpress/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Pagination_Parameters). Default value is 'false': use paging. So it is expected behaviour when you set it to true, the sky comes falling down (if you have a big number of posts that is).

By using only the posts_per_page parameter, the query will grab the number of posts you tell it to and that will be that.