Title: Offset posts/archive lists
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Offset posts/archive lists

 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offset-postsarchive-lists/)
 * I’ve been fiddling around with WordPress for a little while, I’m running MovableType
   for my personal site and I want to check out some alternatives
    One MT function
   I use quite a lot, for structure and breakdown, is the offset feature. Whereby,
   one can call a list of entries and offset the list by a number. For example `
   <MTEntries lastn="10" offset="5">`, which skips the last 5 entries and lists 
   the 10 entries after that. I was wondering if there’s a feature like this in 
   WordPress.

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 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offset-postsarchive-lists/#post-55689)
 * You can use the get_posts(); function.
    This accepts two parameters, numberposts
   and offset, so you can have `<?php get_posts('numberposts=10&offset=5'); ?>` 
   to do what you described in wordpress.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offset-postsarchive-lists/#post-55871)
 * Thanks you!
    Clearly the documentation and I do not mix well. I was having such
   a hard time finding this reference.
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offset-postsarchive-lists/#post-55873)
 * [http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/HomePage](http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/HomePage)
   
   the documentation is under works… carthik adn the gang working hard.
 *  [bAs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bas/)
 * (@bas)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offset-postsarchive-lists/#post-56255)
 * where exactly would you put that code: `<?php get_posts('numberposts=15'); ?>`
   
   in order to limit the # of posts to 15 when you click on any category? i posted
   this question already and then spent 3 hours looking for possible answers 🙁 
   if this is the answer- then all i need to know is where to put it to make it 
   work for categories.
 *  [bAs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bas/)
 * (@bas)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offset-postsarchive-lists/#post-56269)
 * Somebody (the persons nick was “somebody”) gave me the answer on irc- all I had
   to do was goto options and reading-
    and under the Front PageShow the most recent:
   put 15 and then choose posts paged

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