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if ( is_home() && ! is_front_page() )

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I see the following code a lot in index.php files. I understand that is_front_page() returns true when viewing the Site Front Page (whether displaying the blog posts index or a static page), while is_home() returns true when viewing the Blog Posts Index (whether displayed on the front page or on a static page). I am still somewhat stumped about the use of the following code –

Newer/Older posts links display same posts on every page

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I am using a plugin called “Types” to generate custom post types for drink/food recipes. I want to show booth drink and food recipes on the same page. The posts are displaying fine, but for some reason, when you click “newer posts” or “older posts” it will bring you to a new page, but the new page will have the same posts as page 1. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Can I force WP_Query to return no results?

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I’m working on a website with a search feature that allows users to search through a lot of post meta. There is a specific search pattern that I would like to forcibly return no results for. The WP_Query technically will find results in the database, but I’d like to override that somehow to force it to return no results to trigger the if( $example->have_posts() ) to fail.