Exclude sticky posts from query

You should also use ignore_sticky_posts=1 (it’s default value is 0, so sticky posts aren’t ignored and returned at top of posts list).

More on pagination parameters: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Pagination_Parameters

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