So, let’s say we want to have 10 posts in reverse chronological order on the homepage, and 1 featured post at the very top, and maybe style this featured post differently than the rest (hey it’s a featured post after all!). That is fairly easy to do if you follow some of the instructions from the WordPress Codex. But in most cases it’ll break the pagination so when you click on ‘previous page‘ or use a plugin like PageNavi, you’ll get the same posts on all subsequent pages. We don’t want that, we want people to be able to browse the older pages using the previous/next links.