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Haha, how could I miss that?!

Thanks a lot! It’s exactly what I was looking for…

Sure,

I wanted to achieve that the first post of each site is displayed different (bigger thumbnail, other font, etc.)

I did this using two queries. The first query does not makes any trouble at all. First I thought I could use offset and pagination for the second post, but that doesnt work. Instead you use something like:

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=featured&posts_per_page=1');
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
  $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>
    <!-- Do stuff... -->
  <?php endwhile; ?>

and

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
  if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue;?>
   <!-- Do stuff... -->
  <?php endwhile; endif; ?>

For explanation read:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops_in_Action

As long as you dont have tons of information to store you can use meta values.

Meta values tend to be very slow if you store a lot of information.

You could design a specific page for each author and add a header-redirect in your author.php if author_x is being displayed.

You have to register a new taxonomy aligned to your new post_type to get something like a category. Have a look:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/register_taxonomy

Any suggests?

Hm, does not solve my actual problem, but thanks for the link!

The technique used @multiple Loops in Action brought me to a solution I tested and which worked…

Is there any special reason why ‘offset’ and pagination doesnt work togehter?

I generate the URLs via the function posts_nav_link()…

Not sure what you mean, but I dont think thats the problem, coz I got no problem if I do not use the offset parameter. So I dont think the problem has something to do with &paged not being loaded…

Thanks for the advice, but doesn’t work…

Indeed it does not make any difference wether you use:

$page = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1;

or:

$page = get_query_var(‘paged’);

Any other ideas?