WP_Query should not return more than "posts_per_page" if ignore_sticky_posts is not set

[bastho]

Case seen on a website containing 2849 posts where 2479 are sticky.

calling from the home page:

<?php
$query = new WP_Query(array (
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'orderby' => 'post_date',
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'posts_per_page' => '4',
    'posts_type' => 'post',
    'post__not_in' => 
    array (
    ),
  ));

returns 2479 posts while:

<?php
$query = new WP_Query(array (
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'orderby' => 'post_date',
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'posts_per_page' => '4',
    'posts_type' => 'post',
    'ignore_sticky_posts'=>1
    'post__not_in' => 
    array (
    ),
  ));

returns only 4 posts.

For an unknown reason, the limit is not applied on stickies.

[swissspidy]

Hey there,

Thanks for your report! Looks like this is already being tracked in #27282.

[bastho]

Thank you.
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