Title: PHP Code
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# PHP Code

 *  [dorinspoaller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dorinspoaller/)
 * (@dorinspoaller)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-code-1/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’ve got on my site a news category. It displays on my front page my latest news.
 * I want it to display from the 4th news article, and not from the first.
 * So it won’t be smthing like this: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10, but rather smthing like
   this: 4-5-6-7-8-9-10.
 * The offset solution is no good.
 * Can somebody help me with this ?

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-code-1/page/2/#post-1306257)
 * this modification calculates the offset for each page ‘manually’ depending on
   the $paged variable and the ‘post-per-page’ for the ‘news category’:
 *     ```
       <!-- News Articles -->
       <?php
       $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
       $offset=4; // enter your offset here
       $offset_paged = $offset+($paged-1)*( (arras_get_option('index_count') == 0 ? get_option('posts_per_page') : arras_get_option('index_count')) );
   
       $news_query = array(
       	'cat' => arras_get_option('news_cat'),
       	'paged' => $paged,
       	'offset' => $offset_paged,
       	'showposts' => ( (arras_get_option('index_count') == 0 ? get_option('posts_per_page') : arras_get_option('index_count')) )
       );
   
       	$news_query = array_merge( $news_query , array_filter( $wp_query->query_vars ) );
       ```
   
 * tried with my set of posts, seems to work, but could depend on your special settings
   😉
 * PS: just saw it shows the option ‘older entries’ even if you reach the last of
   the posts – clicking it leads you to a page with just the featured post on top,
   and a ‘newer entries’ button.
 * also: wp_pagenavi plugin shows one page too many 😉
 *  Thread Starter [dorinspoaller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dorinspoaller/)
 * (@dorinspoaller)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-code-1/page/2/#post-1306261)
 * And where does that go? In home.php? From where to where? :)) Sry for all the
   questions, but I`m a n00b at this.
 * If this works I’m gonna send you the real Santa for Christmas :))
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-code-1/page/2/#post-1306267)
 * technically, it does not work, because there is one page extra in the page navigation.
   as [@t31os_](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/) stated, the offset 
   parameter interferes with the page navi.
    however, if you have many posts, not
   many will go to the oldest page of posts, and be confused by a last ’empty’ page.
 * the code goes into home.php, into the section which you posted earlier yourself.
 * start with finding the line `<!-- News Articles -->` in home.php.
    add the first
   few lines of new code after this. then add `'offset' => $offset_paged,` further
   down after `'paged' => $paged,` – that is all. the result should look like this:
 *     ```
       <!-- News Articles -->
   
       <!-- new bit -->
       <?php
       global $offset;
       $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
       $offset=4; //enter offset here
       $offset_paged = $offset+($paged-1)*( (arras_get_option('index_count') == 0 ? get_option('posts_per_page') : arras_get_option('index_count')) ); ?>
       <!-- end of first new bit -->
   
       <?php
       $news_query = array(
       	'cat' => arras_get_option('news_cat'),
       	'paged' => $paged,
       	'offset' => $offset_paged,
       	'showposts' => ( (arras_get_option('index_count') == 0 ? get_option('posts_per_page') : arras_get_option('index_count')) )
       );
   
       // if you are a WP plugin freak you can use 'arras_news_query' filter to override the query
       ```
   
 * ((if you use the plugin wp_pagenavi, you can edit wp-pagenavi.php and get rid
   of the ‘extra’ page in the menu – change here in the lines marked with `/////////`:
 *     ```
       ### Function: Page Navigation: Boxed Style Paging
       function wp_pagenavi($before = '', $after = '') {
       	global $wpdb, $wp_query, $offset;  ////////////
       	if (!is_single()) {
       		$request = $wp_query->request;
       		$posts_per_page = intval(get_query_var('posts_per_page'));
       		$paged = intval(get_query_var('paged'));
       		$pagenavi_options = get_option('pagenavi_options');
       		$numposts = $wp_query->found_posts-$offset; ////////////
       		$max_page=ceil($numposts/$posts_per_page); ///////////////
       		//////     $max_page = $wp_query->max_num_pages; ////////////
       		if(empty($paged) || $paged == 0) {
       			$paged = 1;
       ```
   
 * ))
 *  Thread Starter [dorinspoaller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dorinspoaller/)
 * (@dorinspoaller)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-code-1/page/2/#post-1306270)
 * Dude, you`re a f*****g genius !!! I Love You !!! In a not gay…ish way! 🙂 It 
   works. Thanks a lot!

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