Specifying 'post_per_page' for multiple post loop - php

Question

I have created a post loop that displays 2 different types of post ('portfolio' and 'post').
<?php
$work = array(
'post_type' => array('portfolio','post'),
'posts_per_page' => '8',
);
$loop = new WP_Query( $work );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
if ( get_post_type() == 'portfolio' ) {
// My portfolio code will go here
}
else if ( get_post_type() == 'post' ) {
// My post code will go here
}
endwhile;
?>
This seems to work fine, but what I would like to do is limit the number of posts each type displays. I've set it so that it limits 8 overall but i'd like to expand this further and limit each type to 4 (4 + 4 = 8 overall).

Answer 1

Hey there I can not think of an easy solution but you have some possibilities to achieve this.
Query all posts and make a counter (bad performance if you have very much posts)
$work = array(
'post_type' => array('portfolio','post'),
'posts_per_page' => -1,
);
$count_portfolio = 0;
$count_post = 0;
$loop = new WP_Query( $work );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
if ( get_post_type() == 'portfolio' && $count_portfolio < 4 ) {
$count_portfolio++;
}
else if ( get_post_type() == 'post' && $count_post < 4) {
$count_post++;
}
if($count_portfolio >=3 && $count_post >=3) {
break;
}
endwhile;
Make two different queries - one for the last four portfolios and one for the last 4 posts
// pseudo code
$allposts = array_merge($query1->posts, $query2->posts);
usort($allposts,'orderbydate_custom_function');
foreach($allposts as $post) {
// do output
}
Make a custom call with $wpdb to query exactly what you want