showposts in WP_Query

  • Dave McHale

    (@dmchale)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hi all,

    I don’t know if this has been discussed in the past so sorry if I’m bringing up old news… I was just digging through the WP_Query class and on line 2436 of /wp-includes/query.php there is code that supports the showposts parameter.

    The parameter isn’t even mentioned in the docblock, and according to the codex has been officially replaced by posts_per_page since 2.1 – so, 7.5 years ago. http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Pagination_Parameters (see the notes for posts_per_page)

    Is this a case of “it’s not hurting anything to keep it, and will do more harm than good to remove it”? Simply a case of “forgotten code”? Would/could/should it be officially deprecated so it can be removed later?

    Just curious what others thought, or if anyone had any insight into previous conversations about this.

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