Description

Used $post_counter & ( $post_counter < $total_posts_count ) condition to manage posts in while loop because there is case where manual ‘post__not_in’ condition handling scenario fails within loop.

CASE EXAMPLE – If total posts set to 4 (where ‘post__not_in’ not used in WP_Query) so there is a chance that out of those 4 posts, 1 post will be currently active on frontend.

So what will happen in this case – Within following loop the current post will exclude by if condition & only 3 posts will be shown up.

To avoid such cases $post_counter & ( $post_counter < $total_posts_count ) condition used.