Title: Post Offsets?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Post Offsets?

 *  Resolved [fredhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredhead/)
 * (@fredhead)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-offsets/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m a relative newbie to WP, so please bear with me…
 * I’m creating a template home page and I want to divide up the 20 most recent 
   posts into 2-3 different areas of the interface. Does WP have a way to specify
   the first 1-5 posts go one place (using template tags), then the posts 6-10 go
   in another place, and posts 11-20 go someplace else in the code?
 * I’m wondering if there is a way to specify an offset? So I grab 20 most recent
   posts, then the first example, first 1-5 posts are easy. Then the second example,
   grabbing just posts 6-10 would require specifying an offset. And the third example,
   posts 11-20 also would require an offset.
 * Any ideas beyond trying to use three different database calls?
 * Thank you!

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 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-offsets/#post-937033)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts#Offset_Parameter](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts#Offset_Parameter)
 *  Thread Starter [fredhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredhead/)
 * (@fredhead)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-offsets/#post-937143)
 * Thanks, Filosofo! I just came back to this post, thinking no one had responded,
   to post the answer I’d found elsewhere, in case someone found this post in the
   future with search. I appreciate the link. I could not find it searching the 
   Codex for ‘offset=’ which I thought was the magic phrase.
 * This thread can be closed. I’d do it but can’t see how.

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 * Last reply from: [fredhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredhead/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-offsets/#post-937143)
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