I'm looking for some followup on an older topic for Wordpress where SQL_CALC was found to slow things down when you have a large DB in Wordpress. I have been using the code, at the bottom of this post, to get around it but it does generate an error in my error log. How would I prevent this error? PHP Warning: Division by zero in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/wp-content/themes/greatTheme/functions.php on line 19 The original thread: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-queries-sql_calc_found_rows-bringing-down-site?replies=25 The code in my functions.php: add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'optimized_get_posts', 100); function optimized_get_posts() { global $wp_query, $wpdb; $wp_query->query_vars['no_found_rows'] = 1; $wp_query->found_posts = $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.post_type = 'post' AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'private')" ); $wp_query->found_posts = apply_filters_ref_array( 'found_posts', array( $wp_query->found_posts, &$wp_query ) ); $wp_query->max_num_pages = ceil($wp_query->found_posts / $wp_query->query_vars['posts_per_page']); return $wp_query; }