Show number of posts before load more button

Hi!

Awesome plugin! Looking forward to buying addons, but I’m just wondering how I can show say 9 posts and after those show the “load more” button (I want the user to click it to load more posts).

So far, I’ve only managed to do it by querying and showing the first 9 posts in my template and using the offset function in the plugin to skip those. But I’m wondering if there something built-in to do this?

Thanks a lot!