You are superb. your code was working nice. I am quite impressed with your support.
But, I simply made a small change in your code to offset the latest post
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
$query->set( 'cat', '252' );
$query->set( 'offset', '1' );
}
} );
The problem is I could offset the latest post from the page but when I go down and click load more button, it loads the same set of posts once again. What to do? Thanks.