Title: Increment $post
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Increment $post

 *  [mrlambdas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrlambdas/)
 * (@mrlambdas)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increment-post/)
 * I’m interning for newyorkminutemag.com/ and they are using an MVP theme called
   Devoe. There is a featured section containing 4 posts and a latest section containing
   10. We have it setup to show 5 related posts at the bottom of the category pages.
   Posts do not show up until page 3 (only showing one) because it is trying to 
   grab the posts already shown. Is there a way for me to Increment the $post variable
   by 14? I have gotten around them not showing up by adding 14 to $post->ID everywhere
   in the loop but it shows all the posts in the featured and latest categories 
   until the last one on page 3 being unique. I have tried:
    global $post; $ID =
   $post->ID + 14; $post = get_post($ID); setup_postdata($post);
 * and
 * $ID = $post->ID;
    $ID += 14; $post->ID = $ID;
 * both will not assign $post a new value it seems.

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increment-post/#post-7596225)
 * If you’re using wp_query to get the posts, look at the “offset” argument.
 * Do not use post IDs as the counter; that’s a database field, not a counter.
 *  Thread Starter [mrlambdas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrlambdas/)
 * (@mrlambdas)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increment-post/#post-7596226)
 * I can’t even tell how the theme is querying the posts. I’ve done work with PHP
   before (mysqli), I am struggling to find out how these WP queries are being executed.
   This is one of the 5 posts per page, I can’t tell where it is getting have_posts()
   or in_array.
 *     ```
       <?php global $do_not_duplicate; if (isset($do_not_duplicate)) { if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); if (in_array($post->ID + 14, $do_not_duplicate)) continue; ?>
   
       <li class="infinite-post">
   
       <?php if (  (function_exists('has_post_thumbnail')) && (has_post_thumbnail())  ) { ?>
   
       <div class="archive-list-img left relative">
   
       <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
   
       <?php the_post_thumbnail('medium-thumb'); ?>
   
       <?php global $numpages; if(get_post_meta($post->ID + 14, "mvp_video_embed", true)) { ?>
   
       <div class="feat-video">
       <i class="fa fa-video-camera fa-2"></i>
       </div><!--feat-video-->
   
       <?php } else if ( $numpages > 1 ) { ?>
   
       <div class="feat-gallery">
       <i class="fa fa-camera-retro fa-2"></i>
       </div><!--feat-gallery-->
       <?php } ?>
       </a>
       </div><!--archive-list-img-->
       <div class="archive-list-text left relative">
       <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark">
       <?php the_title(); ?></a>
   
       <p><?php echo excerpt(22); ?></p>
   
       <div class="archive-list-info left relative">
   
       <span class="archive-list-author left">
       <?php the_author(); ?></span>
       <span class="archive-list-date left"><?php the_time(get_option('date_format')); ?></span>
   
       </div><!--archive-list-info-->
   
       </div><!--archive-list-text-->
   
       <?php } else { ?>
   
       <div class="archive-list-text left relative w100">
   
       <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark">
       <?php the_title(); ?></a>
   
       <p><?php echo excerpt(22); ?></p>
   
       <div class="archive-list-info left relative">
   
       <span class="archive-list-author left">
       <?php the_author(); ?></span>
       <span class="archive-list-date left"><?php the_time(get_option('date_format')); ?></span>
   
       </div><!--archive-list-info-->
   
       </div><!--archive-list-text-->
   
       <?php } ?>
   
       </li>
   
       <?php endwhile; endif; } else { ?>
       ```
   
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increment-post/#post-7596231)
 * As this is a paid/commercial theme, you should check with the developers to see
   how / why they built it the way the did and how you can customize it. Their support
   is at [http://www.mvpthemes.com/support/](http://www.mvpthemes.com/support/)
 *  Thread Starter [mrlambdas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrlambdas/)
 * (@mrlambdas)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increment-post/#post-7596273)
 * I originally was going to, but after 6 months they do not offer support (1 year
   if paid for). I thought I would check here if there was a simple way to set the
   post variable.

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