How to exclude last post from blog page in wordpress

Question

I used to write several blog posts in wordpress. I have totally updated 10 posts and its showing 10 posts perfectly.

My question is,

I need only 9 posts to display. The last updated posts should not display on the website. I need the code to exclude the newest post that is 10th post. And i need the code to be placed on functions.php.

Could anyone please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Just go to your settings from the admin pannel and then click on reading then change blog post at most to 9 .

Or programatically you can try like

 $latestPosts = new WP_Query( array(
                        'posts_per_page'            => 9, 
                        'orderby'                   => 'date',
                        'order'                     => 'DESC',
                      )); // end query

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