Exclude first post from wp query

Question

I am building a WordPress website and I want to show post in it. But the problem is that, I want to exclude the first post in query. I have not much knowledge of PHP. So please help me to de this. This is the basic code that The theme is using;

<?php
$blog_args = array(
    'post_type'      => 'post',
    'posts_per_page' => 8
);

$blog_posts = new WP_Query( $blog_args );

while ( $blog_posts->have_posts() ) {
    $blog_posts->the_post();
}

wp_reset_postdata();

Please help me to do this

Answer 1

You can do this using general programming/common sense with a variable and an if statement, no WordPress knowledge is required.

If we create a variable named $skip_next and set it to true, then perform a check in the loop, we can set it to false and continue to skip the first.

$skip_next = true;
while ( $blog_posts->have_posts() ) {
    if ( $skip_next ) {
        $skip_next = false;
        continuel
    }

    $blog_posts->the_post();

Now because $skip_next is false on the second post it will not be skipped

Answer 2

Delete the first post form the posts property:

$blog_posts = new WP_Query( $blog_args );
unset( $blog_posts->posts[0] );