Pagination works perfect on pages but not on the Index.php
Problem: It doesn’t list all entries and the Count for Entries beyond settings >> reading interferes. Depending from what I setting the Count, Entries missing or it list too much empty pages in the Pagination-list at the end…

This is what I did:

if ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) { $paged = get_query_var( 'paged' ); }
elseif ( get_query_var( 'page' ) ) { $paged = get_query_var( 'page' ); }
else { $paged = 1; }
$paged = ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
$args = array(
  'posts_per_page' => 4 ,
  'category_name'=> 'Allgemein',
  'post_status' => 'publish, future',
  'order'=> 'DEC',
  'orderby'=> 'date',
  'paged'=> $paged
);

$the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); 
$myposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach ($myposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post);?>
<?php the_content(); ?> <?php endforeach; ?>

<div><?php the_posts_pagination( array(
    'mid_size' => 4,
     
    'prev_text' => __( '←', 'textdomain' ),
    'next_text' => __( '→', 'textdomain' ),
) ); ?></div>```

Thanks for any help & solution

PS: The post_status future will be shown by using a function “show_future_posts”, as I want to have a special Entry always first.