Title: Display array with no duplicates
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Display array with no duplicates

 *  [josiahroman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josiahroman/)
 * (@josiahroman)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-array-with-no-duplicates/)
 * Hello everybody,
 * I’m so close to solving this but I’m stuck in the follow. Our website displays
   the 3 most upcoming events in our front page. By default the theme has no ability
   to show a featured event rather it only orders events by date. I’ve been able
   to add the ability to feature 1 event on the left while leaving 2 slots for upcoming
   events on the right. My problem now is when the featured event is soon it displays
   on the right side showing as well resulting on two identical events (the featured
   and the upcoming). I want to be able to remove any duplicates. I’ve tried other
   tutorials using array_unique but I’ve had no luck.
 * Here is another thing that I would like to do as well. Right now my site will
   display 1 featured event to the left and 2 upcoming to right equaling in 3. The
   problem is that when I don’t have any featured events the front page only displays
   2 events making the site look off balance. I would like to some how say that 
   if there is no featured event display 3 upcoming events instead of 2.
 * Thank you again for your help.
 * `backticks`
    // Categories events
 * $args1 = array(
    ‘post_type’ => ‘dd_events’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 1, ‘post_status’
   => array( ‘future’ ), ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ =
   > ‘featured’, ‘value’ => ‘yes’, ) )
 *  );
 * $args2 = array(
 * ‘post_type’ => ‘dd_events’,
    ‘posts_per_page’ => 2,
 *  ‘post_status’ => array( ‘future’ ),
    ‘order’ => ‘ASC’,
 *  );
 * $query1 = new WP_Query($args1);
    $query2 = new WP_Query($args2); $query3 = new
   WP_Query($dd_number);
 * $dd_query = new WP_Query ();
 * $dd_query->posts = array_merge( $query1->posts, $query2->posts );
 * //populate post_count count for the loop to work correctly
    $dd_query->post_count
   = $query1->post_count + $query2->post_count;
 * if ( $dd_query->have_posts() ) : $start_at = true; $count = 0; ?>
 *  <div class=”events-no-cal-wrapper home-section <?php echo $wrapper_class; ?>”
   >
    `backticks`

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-array-with-no-duplicates/)
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