I have searched the forum and FB community trying to solve this problem but I am almost convinced that there is no definitive solution to this.
I have created a template for displaying the default posts categories of WP. I only have normal posts that are assigned to a single category “News” for now.
No matter which settings I try (“Merge…”, “Is main query”) the pagination is not working. If I set “Is main query” then there are no posts fetched at all. With any other setting when clicking on a page number on the pagination element the URL is “https://myurl.com/media/news/page/2/” and so on…and I get a 404 error since “page 2,3,4…” do not exist.
Is there a but since most of the threads I read and the suggested solutions do not work for me (i.e. matching the number of posts in WP Reading settings with those of the loop).
I didn’t solve it with a template because I want to display the query on a specific page for a specific purpose. I’m sending 3 screenshots of this. If the original 10 was specified on the WordPress > Settings > Read page (default), then the paging didn’t work well for me either.