Display latest 100 posts with pagination of 5 posts per page in wordpress using WP Query

Question

My website has more than 5000 posts and I am trying to display the latest 100 posts in a separate page with pagination(5 posts per page).

<?php
$paged = ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'post',
'posts_per_page' => 5,
'paged' => $paged
);
$wp_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : 
while( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : $wp_query->the_post();
get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', get_post_type() );
endwhile;
the_posts_navigation(); 
wp_reset_postdata();
else :
get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', 'none' );
endif;
?>

I am using the above code which displays 5 posts per page but I could find a way to restrict the total posts count to 100. I went through various blog articles and various SO threads but couldn't find any solution for this.

There were few threads that say, using 'numberposts' => 100 will help. But that didn't help either. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can calculate the limit as like:

$paged = ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'post',
'posts_per_page' => 5,
'paged' => $paged
);
if($args['posts_per_page'] * $args['paged'] <= 100){
    $wp_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : 
    while( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : $wp_query->the_post();
    get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', get_post_type() );
    endwhile;
    the_posts_navigation(); 
    wp_reset_postdata();
    else :
    get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', 'none' );
    endif;
}