Title: Advanced features, post loop?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Advanced features, post loop?

 *  Resolved [Ovidiu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovidiu/)
 * (@ovidiu)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-features-post-loop/)
 * how would I add an offset so that the first say 5 posts are ignored by this post
   loop?
 * I tried adding offset=5 and offset=”5″ into the field for additional query arguments
   but nothing happened…
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 *  Thread Starter [Ovidiu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovidiu/)
 * (@ovidiu)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-features-post-loop/#post-6495172)
 * the trick was to add “&”
    => `&offset=5`
 *  Thread Starter [Ovidiu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovidiu/)
 * (@ovidiu)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-features-post-loop/#post-6495488)
 * unfortunately, something is broken here. after entering `&offset=5` and saving,
   it works, but if I go and edit the query again, the argument doesn’T show almost
   as if the widget had correctly saved that argument but was unable to read it 
   back from the DB.
 *  Thread Starter [Ovidiu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovidiu/)
 * (@ovidiu)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-features-post-loop/#post-6495557)
 * Anyone from the team reading this?
    Anyone able to confirm this?
 *  Plugin Support [Andrew Misplon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/misplon/)
 * (@misplon)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-features-post-loop/#post-6495559)
 * Hi [@ovidiu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovidiu/)
 * Apologies for the delay.
 * Your initial attempt works for me:
 * `offset=5`
 * The above inserted into the Additional field of the Query Builder within the 
   Post Loop widget works correctly on my side. Could you perhaps test it again?
 *  Thread Starter [Ovidiu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovidiu/)
 * (@ovidiu)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-features-post-loop/#post-6495560)
 * This is really weird, I now went back and inserted offset=5 and it worked now
   and also gets properly saved and read back so if I open the widget again, it 
   actually shows offset=5…
 * THanks!
 *  Plugin Support [Andrew Misplon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/misplon/)
 * (@misplon)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-features-post-loop/#post-6495561)
 * Super 🙂 Glad to hear you made progress on this.

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