I'm using the default Loop Code.

I've set the 'Blog pages show at most' option in Settings > Reading to 11.

In my home page -set to show Latest Posts- whenever I mark a post as 'Sticky' it's being added to the original 'Blog pages show at most' count, so the home page now shows 12 posts instead of 11.

I want to avoid this!

I want to keep 11 posts in total, that being -in the example above- 1 Sticky post plus 10 normal posts. Is this possible?

I've already tested this with default themes and all plugins turned off.

EDIT

So far I've found that I could modify the main query using pre_get_posts.

What I intend to do then is query for only the sticky posts, and then merge that query with the main query.

I found this snippet but I'm having problems converting that into a pre_get_posts working function.

$newsposts = array();

$sticky = get_option('sticky_posts');
$args = array(
    'post__in' => $sticky,
    'posts_per_page' => $num
);
$sticky_posts = get_posts($args);

if( count($sticky_posts) < $num ) {
    $extras = $num - count($sticky_posts);
    $args= array(
    'post__not_in' => $sticky,
    'posts_per_page' => $extras
);
$extra_posts = get_posts($args);
$newsposts = array_merge($sticky_posts, $extra_posts);
}
else $newsposts = $sticky_posts;

I'm using the default Loop Code.

I've set the 'Blog pages show at most' option in Settings > Reading to 11.

In my home page -set to show Latest Posts- whenever I mark a post as 'Sticky' it's being added to the original 'Blog pages show at most' count, so the home page now shows 12 posts instead of 11.

I want to avoid this!

I want to keep 11 posts in total, that being -in the example above- 1 Sticky post plus 10 normal posts. Is this possible?

I've already tested this with default themes and all plugins turned off.

EDIT

So far I've found that I could modify the main query using pre_get_posts.

What I intend to do then is query for only the sticky posts, and then merge that query with the main query.

I found this snippet but I'm having problems converting that into a pre_get_posts working function.

$newsposts = array();

$sticky = get_option('sticky_posts');
$args = array(
    'post__in' => $sticky,
    'posts_per_page' => $num
);
$sticky_posts = get_posts($args);

if( count($sticky_posts) < $num ) {
    $extras = $num - count($sticky_posts);
    $args= array(
    'post__not_in' => $sticky,
    'posts_per_page' => $extras
);
$extra_posts = get_posts($args);
$newsposts = array_merge($sticky_posts, $extra_posts);
}
else $newsposts = $sticky_posts;

I'm using the default Loop Code.

I've set the 'Blog pages show at most' option in Settings > Reading to 11.

In my home page -set to show Latest Posts- whenever I mark a post as 'Sticky' it's being added to the original 'Blog pages show at most' count, so the home page now shows 12 posts instead of 11.

I want to avoid this!

I want to keep 11 posts in total, that being -in the example above- 1 Sticky post plus 10 normal posts. Is this possible?

I've already tested this with default themes and all plugins turned off.

Any help will be very much appreciated.

So far I've found that I could modify the main query using pre_get_posts.

What I intend to do then is query for only the sticky posts, and then merge that query with the main query.

I found this snippet but I'm having problems converting that into a pre_get_posts working function.

$newsposts = array();

$sticky = get_option('sticky_posts');
$args = array(
    'post__in' => $sticky,
    'posts_per_page' => $num
);
$sticky_posts = get_posts($args);

if( count($sticky_posts) < $num ) {
    $extras = $num - count($sticky_posts);
    $args= array(
    'post__not_in' => $sticky,
    'posts_per_page' => $extras
);
$extra_posts = get_posts($args);
$newsposts = array_merge($sticky_posts, $extra_posts);
}
else $newsposts = $sticky_posts;

I'm using the default Loop Code.

I've set the 'Blog pages show at most' option in Settings > Reading to 11.

In my home page -set to show Latest Posts- whenever I mark a post as 'Sticky' it's being added to the original 'Blog pages show at most' count, so the home page now shows 12 posts instead of 11.

I want to avoid this!

I want to keep 11 posts in total, that being -in the example above- 1 Sticky post plus 10 normal posts. Is this possible?

I've already tested this with default themes and all plugins turned off.

EDIT

So far I've found that I could modify the main query using pre_get_posts.

What I intend to do then is query for only the sticky posts, and then merge that query with the main query.

I found this snippet but I'm having problems converting that into a pre_get_posts working function.

$newsposts = array();

$sticky = get_option('sticky_posts');
$args = array(
    'post__in' => $sticky,
    'posts_per_page' => $num
);
$sticky_posts = get_posts($args);

if( count($sticky_posts) < $num ) {
    $extras = $num - count($sticky_posts);
    $args= array(
    'post__not_in' => $sticky,
    'posts_per_page' => $extras
);
$extra_posts = get_posts($args);
$newsposts = array_merge($sticky_posts, $extra_posts);
}
else $newsposts = $sticky_posts;