Index: post.php
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--- post.php	(revision 5773)
+++ post.php	(working copy)
@@ -1048,10 +1048,13 @@
 		'sort_column' => 'post_title', 'hierarchical' => 1, 
 		'exclude' => '', 'include' => '', 
 		'meta_key' => '', 'meta_value' => '', 
-		'authors' => ''
+		'authors' => '', 'offset' => '0',
+		'number' => ''
 	);
 
 	$r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
+	$r['offset'] = (int) $r['offset'];
+	$r['number'] = (int) $r['number'];
 	extract( $r, EXTR_SKIP );
 
 	$key = md5( serialize( $r ) );
@@ -1126,6 +1129,9 @@
 	$query .= $author_query;
 	$query .= " ORDER BY " . $sort_column . " " . $sort_order ;
 
+	if (!empty($number))
+		$query = " LIMIT " . $offset . "," . $number;
+
 	$pages = $wpdb->get_results($query);
 	$pages = apply_filters('get_pages', $pages, $r);