I'm pretty new to wordpress. My custom query pagination not working properly, it arrives until page 17 than stops working (i have 21 pages of products). I have tried to change it with pre get posts function but it doesn't work as expected. what could be the issue and what i can try? <?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; $term = get_queried_object(); $args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', 'posts_per_page' => 12, 'paged' => $paged, ); if ($term instanceof WP_Term && 'product_cat' === $term->taxonomy) { $taxonomy_slug = $term->slug; // Custom query to get products from the current taxonomy. $args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', 'posts_per_page' => 12, 'paged' => $paged, 'tax_query' => array( array( 'taxonomy' => 'product_cat', 'field' => 'slug', 'terms' => $taxonomy_slug, ), ), ); } $query = new WP_Query($args); if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'category') !== false) { // Filter categories based on the visible products $object_ids = $query->posts ? wp_list_pluck($query->posts, 'ID') : array(); } else { // No filtering, include all products $object_ids = array(); } $product_categories = get_terms(array( 'taxonomy' => 'product_cat', 'hide_empty' => true, // Exclude empty categories 'object_ids' => $query->posts ? wp_list_pluck($query->posts, 'ID') : array(), )); ?> <div class="pagination"> <?php $big = 999999999; // need an unlikely integer echo paginate_links( array( 'base' => str_replace( $big, '%#%', esc_url( get_pagenum_link( $big ) ) ), 'format' => '?paged=%#%', 'current' => max( 1, get_query_var('paged') ), 'total' => $query->max_num_pages ) ); ?> </div>