Need help with Wordpress Query

Hello,
I'm running wordpress on my site with the theme The Morning After. I understand that wordpress typically has a standard query of its own, however this theme uses a custom query to make its frontpage look a certain way. I'm fine with it, however I want it to be able to have a page 2. How do I modify it?

?php $the_query = new WP_Query('cat=-' .$catid. ',-' .$catid2. '&showposts=5&offset=1&orderby=post_date&order=desc');
			

...


while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post();

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A bit unsure as to what you are asking here - do you want to make another page, as a separate page on the blog? For instance (given that it is the site in your signature), having a "go to page 2" or something like that?

If so, it should be enough to just make another page on the blog, maybe you'll need to add the menu-structure (I don't know the theme) and use the same template for the second page?

But maybe I've misunderstood what you want?

 

If you use the query:

 $the_query = new WP_Query('cat=-' .$catid. ',-' .$catid2. '&showposts=5&offset=1&orderby=post_date&order=desc'.'&paged='.$paged);

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it will automatically page the query based on the page number passed
through the url eg "/page/4"

However, this doesn't work with the “post_nav_link” function because it
only checks the $wp_query variable. To get around this you have to
trick the function by switching $wp_query on it. Add the first block
before your custom loop and the second after to achieve this effect.

<?php //query_posts('paged='.$paged);
    $temp = $wp_query;
    $wp_query= null;
       $wp_query = new WP_Query();
       $wp_query->query('cat=-' .$catid. ',-' .$catid2. '&showposts=5&offset=1&orderby=post_date&order=desc''.'&paged='.$paged);
    ?>

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<?php $wp_query = null; $wp_query = $temp;?>

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Then just remove all the "$the_query->"s mucking up your template file.