Title: query_posts offset issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# query_posts offset issue

 *  [Kysol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kysol/)
 * (@kysol)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-offset-issue/)
 * I’ve done some searching around and I still can’t figure out what is happening.
   Basically what happens is that Page 1 shows 5 posts, Page 2 shows 10 posts, but
   there is no link to Page 3 (which should show 2 posts that are remaining). If
   I manually goto the link, I get an error due to no articles.
 * $paged is being set (so it’s not a null value issue).
 * This is the query_post structure I’m using (minus a few extra fields like post__not_in
   and cat, which shouldn’t be effecting it.
 *     ```
       query_posts(
       	array(
       		'posts_per_page'=> ( ( $paged == 1 ) ? 5 : 10 ),
       		'offset'	=> ( ( $paged == 1 ) ? 0 : ( ( $paged - 1 ) * 10 ) - 5 )
       	)
       );
       ```
   
 * Totally lost :/

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-offset-issue/#post-1274783)
 * Okay not sure you will want this, but this will show you 5 posts per page, excluding
   categories 2 and 3:
 *     ```
       <?php
       $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
       $args=array(
         'category__not_in' => array(2,3),
         'post_per_page' => 5,
         'paged'=> $paged
       );
       query_posts($args);
       ?>
       ```
   
 *  [sulaeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sulaeman/)
 * (@sulaeman)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-offset-issue/#post-1274793)
 * did you mean that want to show 5 entries in page 1 and the rest are 10 entries?
   then use this :
 *     ```
       $current_page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
       $max_entries_per_page = ($current_page == 1) ? 5 : 10;
   
       query_posts("paged=" . $current_page);
       <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
       <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
       <!-- BLA BLA BLA BLA -->
       <?php endwhile; ?>
       <?php endif; ?>
   
       <?php next_posts_link('« Older Entries', $max_entries_per_page) ?>
       <?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries »', $max_entries_per_page) ?>
       ```
   
 * if you want to have 10 entries in each page then the :
    `$max_entries_per_page
   = ($current_page == 1) ? 5 : 10;` change to : `$max_entries_per_page = 10;`

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [sulaeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sulaeman/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-offset-issue/#post-1274793)
 * Status: not resolved

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