I think I know what happens here... Most probably that Monday is another week - last one in 2018, and it makes sense. Last day of 2018 can’t be the first week of 2019 ;) So I would query it in a different way: 'date_query' => array( 'after' => '-' . (intval(date('N')) - 1) . 'days', 'inclusive' => true ) What it does is takes all posts published after given date. And to compute that date we take current day and substract the current day of the week - so we get last Monday...