Using offset for custom post query

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Situation:

News page – Currently shows the latest 5 news items Archive page – Starts on post 6, I’ve setup pagination.

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For testing purposes I’ve got 20 posts numbered 1 – 20. 

<?php 
    $args = array(
     'category' => 7,
      'posts_per_page' => 5, 
      'offset' => ( $paged - 1 ) * $posts_per_page + 5,
     'paged' => $paged );
 ?>

<?php 

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts($args); 
?>

The above code works fine for archive page 1 but when I click page 2 in the pagination it skips 5 and jumps to post 16.

How would I resolve the above query to prevent skipping 5 posts?

Cheers, Dan

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  1. So the final code should look like:

    <?php 

    $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts($args); 

    $posts_per_page = 5;

    $args = array(
     'category' => 7,
      'posts_per_page' => $posts_per_page, 
      'offset' => ( $paged - 1 ) * $posts_per_page ,
     'paged' => $paged );

 ?>