Title: Pagination repeating same posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Pagination repeating same posts

 *  Resolved [aaronmacdonald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronmacdonald/)
 * (@aaronmacdonald)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-repeating-same-posts/)
 * Hi,
 * I have a template set up to get the titles and dates from a specific category.
   I want it to show 5 posts per page, but when I set the “posts_per_page” value
   to 5 in query_posts() it paginates but the the next_post_link links to a page
   displaying the same 5 posts, not the older ones.
 * This might be something simple that I’m overlooking, but I cannot figure it out.
   Here’s an example of the template set-up:
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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-repeating-same-posts/#post-2080287)
 * Probably a poor query() statement. Try reviewing [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#A_Page_of_Posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#A_Page_of_Posts)
 *  Thread Starter [aaronmacdonald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronmacdonald/)
 * (@aaronmacdonald)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-repeating-same-posts/#post-2080306)
 * Thank you very much, I got it working.

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 * Last reply from: [aaronmacdonald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronmacdonald/)
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