Simple way to Exclude Latest Post from the WordPress While Loop

Most of the wordpress developers will usually stuck on some simple issues with the wordpress functions. I have recently got stuck for 30 minutes on this simple issue with the While Loop.

Excluding the Latest Post from the Wordpress While Loop.

First we need to get a simple idea about query_posts() and How it works, and How it affect the loop.

For example
<?php
query_posts('posts_per_page=3&offset=0');
?>
This query will tell the loop to display 3 posts which includes the latest one too. Important point is that this “offset” is doing the Magic.

Your loop code should look like:

<?php

query_posts('posts_per_page=9&offset=1');

// offset=1  will remove the Latest post from our Loop.

if ( have_posts() ) : 

    while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

 the_title();

    endwhile;

end if;

?>

Hope this will help to save your pretious time.