Title: query_posts pagination and offset
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# query_posts pagination and offset

 *  [davaguco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davaguco/)
 * (@davaguco)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-pagination-and-offset/)
 * I have a home page with two initial loops showing four posts (two on each column
   with two different categories and then the regular loop starts again. The code
   has been inserted on a custom page template.
 * So far everything seems to be working fine, but when I try to get the third loop(
   the regular one) to start on the third post (offset of two posts) my pagination
   gets corrupted and page 2 and further only show page one. This code seems to 
   be working:
 * `$posts = query_posts(array( 'cat' => -30, 'paged' => get_query_var('page')));`
 * But when I change it to this:
 * `$posts = query_posts(array( 'cat' => -30, 'paged' => get_query_var('page'), '
   offset' => 2));`
 * My pagination stops working.
 * Anybody knows what I’m doing wrong?
 * I will copy the entire code here (line 137 is not being used now, and line 138
   is where the problem seems to be):
 *     ```
       <?php
         /*
         Template Name: Alternate Multi Column Home
         */
       ?>
       <?php get_header(); ?>
       <div class="multicolumna">
       <div class="art-content-layout">
           <div class="art-content-layout-row">
               <div class="art-layout-cell art-content">
       			<?php
       			  get_sidebar('top'); 
   
       			  global $post;
       			  if (have_posts()){
   
       				?>
       				<div class = "todo">
       				<div class = "columna1">
       				<span class="cabeceracolumna">Noticias de Las Rozas:</span>
       				<div class="cleared"></div>
       				<?php
       				$i = 0;
       				$args = 'cat=' . '3' . '&orderby=date&order=ASC'.'&offset=' . $offs;
       				$posts = query_posts( $args );
       				while (have_posts()& $i <2)
       				{
       				?>
       				<div class = "entrada">
       				<?php
       					the_post();
       					?>
   
       					<?php
       					art_post_wrapper(
       						array(
       								'id' => art_get_post_id(),
       								'class' => art_get_post_class(),
       								'thumbnail' => art_get_post_thumbnail(),
       								'title' => '<a href="'.get_permalink($post->ID).'" rel="bookmark" title="'.get_the_title().'">'.get_the_title().'</a>',
       								'content' => art_get_excerpt(), // 'content' => 'My post content',
   
       						)
       					);
       					$i++;
       				?>
       					<!--
       					<span class="post-date">
       						<span class="month">
       						<?php the_time(__('M','arclite')); ?>
       						</span>
       						<span class="day">
       						<?php the_time(__('j','arclite')); ?>
       						</span>
       					</span>
       					<div class="post-author">
       						<span class="info">
       						<?php printf(__('Autor: %s','arclite'),'<a href="'. get_author_posts_url(get_the_author_ID()) .'" title="'. sprintf(__("Mensajes por %s","arclite"), attribute_escape(get_the_author())).' ">'. get_the_author() .'</a>');
       						?>
       						</span>
       					</div>
       					-->
       				</div>
       				<?php
       				}
       				wp_reset_postdata();
       				wp_reset_query();
       				?>
       				</div>
       				<div class = "columna2">
       				<span class="cabeceracolumna">Colaboraciones y Blog:</span>
       				<div class="cleared"></div>
       				<?php
       				$i = 0;
       				$args = 'cat=' . '30' . '&orderby=date&order=ASC'.'&offset=' . $offs;
       				$posts = query_posts( $args );
       				while (have_posts()& $i <2)
       				{
       				?>
       				<div class = "entrada">
       				<?php
       					the_post();
       					?>
   
       					<?php
       					art_post_wrapper(
       						array(
       								'id' => art_get_post_id(),
       								'class' => art_get_post_class(),
       								'thumbnail' => art_get_post_thumbnail(),
       								'title' => '<a href="'.get_permalink($post->ID).'" rel="bookmark" title="'.get_the_title().'">'.get_the_title().'</a>',
       								'content' => art_get_excerpt(), // 'content' => 'My post content',
   
       						)
       					);
       					$i++;
       				?>
       					<!--
       					<span class="post-date">
       						<span class="month">
       						<?php the_time(__('M','arclite')); ?>
       						</span>
       						<span class="day">
       						<?php the_time(__('j','arclite')); ?>
       						</span>
       					</span>
   
       					<div class="post-author">
       						<span class="info">
       						<?php printf(__('Autor: %s','arclite'),'<a href="'. get_author_posts_url(get_the_author_ID()) .'" title="'. sprintf(__("Mensajes por %s","arclite"), attribute_escape(get_the_author())).' ">'. get_the_author() .'</a>');
       						?>
       						</span>
       					</div>
       					-->
       				</div>
       				<?php
       				}
       				wp_reset_postdata();
       				wp_reset_query();
       				?>
       				</div>
       				</div>
       				<div class="cleared"></div>
       				<?php
       				if (art_get_option('art_' . (art_is_home() ? 'home_' : '') . 'top_posts_navigation')) {
       					art_page_navigation();// previous_posts_link | next_posts_link
       				}
       				$args = 'cat=' . '-30' . 'orderby=date&order=ASC'.'offset=' . '2';
       				$posts = query_posts(array( 'cat' => -30, 'paged' => get_query_var('page')));
       				while (have_posts())
       				{
       					the_post();
       					art_post_wrapper(
       						array(
       								'id' => art_get_post_id(),
       								'class' => art_get_post_class(),
       								'thumbnail' => art_get_post_thumbnail(),
       								'title' => '<a href="'.get_permalink($post->ID).'" rel="bookmark" title="'.get_the_title().'">'.get_the_title().'</a>',
       								'before' => art_get_metadata_icons('date,edit', 'header'),
       								'content' => art_get_excerpt(), // 'content' => 'My post content',
       								'after' => art_get_metadata_icons('category,tag,comments', 'footer')
       						)
       					);
       				?>
       				<div class="separar" align="center"><img src="wp-content/themes/Miguel_angel_ferrero/images/post_separator.jpg"/></div>
       				<?php
       				}
       				wp_reset_postdata();
       				if (art_get_option('art_bottom_posts_navigation')) {
       					art_page_navigation();// previous_posts_link | next_posts_link
       				}
       			  } else {    
   
       				art_404_content();
   
       			  }
       				wp_reset_postdata();
       				wp_reset_query();
       			get_sidebar('bottom');
       			?>
                 <div class="cleared"></div>
               </div>
               <div class="art-layout-cell art-sidebar1">
                 <?php get_sidebar('default'); ?>
                 <div class="cleared">
               </div>
           </div>
       </div>
       <div class="cleared">
       </div>
       <?php get_footer();
       ```
   

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 *  Thread Starter [davaguco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davaguco/)
 * (@davaguco)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-pagination-and-offset/#post-2422041)
 * I just found one article that might help me:
 * [http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/19/how-to-offsets-and-paging/](http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/19/how-to-offsets-and-paging/)
 * I will try to do this and see if it works.
 *  Thread Starter [davaguco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davaguco/)
 * (@davaguco)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-pagination-and-offset/#post-2422045)
 * I tried to do what this article says but it didn’t fix the problem. I’m still
   not sure how to fix this.
 * Any answer?
 *  Thread Starter [davaguco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davaguco/)
 * (@davaguco)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-pagination-and-offset/#post-2422047)
 * I’m going to try this fix:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-loop-pagination?replies=4](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-loop-pagination?replies=4)

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