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I am using taxonomy.php to fetch some rows from database. On taxonomy page the function get_queried_object() shows that I have got the right results from database but wordpress loop if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); is looping over all rows from database. Does have_posts() always iterates over all rows in database?

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query_posts("post_type=taxonomy_name&posts_per_page=6");
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();

Am i rewriting the query in query_posts()?

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if i remove the first line 

query_posts("post_type=taxonomy_name&posts_per_page=6");

the loop is not printing any thing.

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  • the loop displays whatever is in the global query object. the query for a taxonomy term happens before the template is loaded, i'll guess that you're creating a new query in the template with incorrect parameters and overwriting the default. edit your question to show us the contents of your taxonomy.php file.
    – Milo
    Commented May 18, 2013 at 20:37

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have_posts() iterates over all posts found and actually returned in the query which depend in the posts_per_page parameter.

And for your second question, using query_posts() does overwrite the query and its not really the recommend method to alter or modify the query result, here is a nice question that explains better ways : When should you use WP_Query vs query_posts() vs get_posts()?

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