'paged' in wp_query doesn't work

Question

I try to add a code to my wordpress blog show previous posts(in a previous page). I try this code but it don't work:

<?php
$paged = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
$args = array(
    'offset' => 1,
    'cat' => -22,
    'paged'=>$paged
);
$recent = new WP_Query($args);
while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();
// here some code to view
<?php endwhile; ?>
<div class="navigation"><p><?php posts_nav_link('&#8734;','next page','previous page'); ?></p></div>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

it's doesn't work in http://mydomain.com/page/2

Answer 1

You set offset param, so paged param is ignored ;)

From Codex:

offset (int) - number of post to displace or pass over. Warning: Setting the offset parameter overrides/ignores the paged

If you want to ignore most recent post in this query, you can achieve it in two ways.

1. Custom pagination.

$ppp = get_option('posts_per_page');  // or any other method to get your posts_per_page

$paged = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
$args = array(
    'offset' => 1 + ( $paged * $ppp ),
    'cat' => -22,
    'paged'=>$paged
);

2. Ignore first post

$most_recent_post_id = ...;  // get the ID of most recent post
$paged = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
$args = array(
    'post__not_in' => array($most_recent_post_id),
    'cat' => -22,
    'paged'=>$paged
);