I've got the pagination function working nicely for a simple for loop of news entries. However I want to split the template up into the first 2 entries as featured items then the next 6 as smaller items. As I paginate through the entries I'd like to keep that layout, however it seems that I cannot use paginatedEntries.limit(2) or paginatedEntries.limit(6).offset(2). Is there another way of doing this?
{% paginate craft.entries.section('news').limit(8) as paginatedEntries %}
<section class="two-col">
<div class="firaslant"><h1>News</h1></div>
{% for entry in paginatedEntries.limit(2) %}
{# Show first 2 entries #}
{% endfor %}
</section>
<aside class="two-col-o">
{% set tagentries = craft.entries.section('news').limit(null) %}
{% if craft.tags.relatedTo(tagentries)|length %}
{% import "_macros/_news.twig" as news %}
{{ news.tags(tagentries, 'News', 'news') }}
{% endif %}
<div class="searchbox">
<h3>Search in News</h3>
{% import "_macros/_search.twig" as searchForm %}
{{ searchForm.simple('news') }}
</div>
{% import "_macros/_util.twig" as util %}
{% if currentUser %}
{{ util.link('/member-news', 'Browse Member News Articles') }}
{% endif %}
</aside>
{# 6 entries as grid #}
<div class="clear">
{% for entry in paginatedEntries.offset(2) %}
{# Show next 6 articles #}
{% endfor %}
</div>
{% if paginate.prevUrl %}<a href="{{ paginate.prevUrl }}" class="paginate-nav">Previous Page</a>{% endif %}
{% if paginate.nextUrl %}<a href="{{ paginate.nextUrl }}" class="paginate-nav">Next Page</a>{% endif %}
{% endpaginate %}
As soon as I remove .offset(2) or .limit(2) the code functions correctly without errors.