Multiple loopers: count issue

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#1

Hi!

I am running to a same issue over and over again: the number of displayed post in a looper, when there are multiple loopers on the layout or the page. In such scenario pagination doesn’t work. Since there is no “All posts” option, I have to choose some random high number which is expected to be high enough so it won’t be exceeded.

That seems like a very inefficient way of doing things, but the default number of posts is simply not enough, and it is a single number that affects all post types.

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I like to create Layouts where data is sorted in some way. For example a Restaurant menu where various loopers are showing various categories such as “Appetizers”", “Side dishes” “Dessert” etc.

Thanks!

#2

There’s an underlying safety and performance concern here. The way you get “All Posts” in WordPress is specifying -1 as your query number. The problem though is if you have a large number of posts in a given post type. If there was an option for “All” and someone chose that with a thousand posts in their DB, it would certainly crash and hit the memory limit. I know it might be annoying to have to enter some arbitrary high number, but it’s just safer than having an option for all items.