Title: Multiple Loop help please
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Multiple Loop help please

 *  [Jas-nm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jas-nm/)
 * (@jas-nm)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-loop-help-please/)
 * Hello, basically I’m having a problem running multiple loops.
 * 1st loop I have displays the latest 5 posts (ONLY) for one category, the 2nd 
   loop displays posts for all other categories and is paginated (10 posts per page).
 * Seems simple enough, and is kind of working with “$do_not_duplicate”, however
   as this is called after query_posts, it won’t always display 10 posts (if there’s
   1 or more in the 1st loop).
 * If however I remove the “$do_not_duplicate” function, the 2nd loop works fine,
   except it won’t paginate, so no-matter what page, I get the latest 10 posts.
 * Here’s what I have:
    **One query with “$do_not_duplicate”**
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
       <div id="container">
         <div id="Quick-box">
           <h2>Quick News</h2>
             <ul id="Quick">
               <?php $my_query = new WP_Query('posts_per_page=5&cat=67');
                 while($my_query -> have_posts())
                 {
                   $my_query -> the_post();
       	    $do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID; ?>
                   <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Click To Comment"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
                   <ul><li><?php
                   the_content();
                   echo '</li></ul></li>';
                 }
               ?>
             </ul>
           </div>
       	<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post();
       	 if(in_array($post->ID, $do_not_duplicate)) continue; ?>
           <div class="post">
             <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
             <div class="entry">
               <?php the_excerpt();?>
             </div>
             <div class="post-meta"><Strong>Posted:</Strong> <?php the_date('d F Y') ?> <strong>by</strong> <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> | <strong>Comments:</strong> <?php comments_popup_link('0', '1', '%'); ?>
             </div>
           </div>
           <?php endwhile; ?>
           <div class="navigation">
             <div class="navigation-newer">
               <?php previous_posts_link('< Newer News');?>
             </div>
             <div class="navigation-older">
               <?php next_posts_link('Older News >'); ?>
             </div>
           </div>
       </div>
       <?php get_sidebar();?>
       <?php get_footer();?>
       ```
   
 * …and **2 “query_posts()” (1 “cat = 67″, 1 cat != 67”)**
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
       <div id="container">
         <div id="Quick-box">
           <h2>Quick News</h2>
             <ul id="Quick">
               <?php
       		  query_posts('posts_per_page=5&cat=67');
                 while(have_posts())
                 {
                   the_post();?>
                   <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Click To Comment"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
                   <ul><li><?php
                   the_content();
                   echo '</li></ul></li>';
       		  }
               ?>
             </ul>
           </div>
       	<?php
           query_posts('posts_per_page=10&cat=-67');
       	while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
           <div class="post">
             <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
             <div class="entry">
               <?php the_excerpt();?>
             </div>
             <div class="post-meta"><Strong>Posted:</Strong> <?php the_date('d F Y') ?> <strong>by</strong> <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> | <strong>Comments:</strong> <?php comments_popup_link('0', '1', '%'); ?>
             </div>
           </div>
           <?php endwhile; ?>
           <div class="navigation">
             <div class="navigation-newer">
               <?php previous_posts_link('< Newer News');?>
             </div>
             <div class="navigation-older">
               <?php next_posts_link('Older News >'); ?>
             </div>
           </div>
       </div>
       <?php get_sidebar();?>
       <?php get_footer();?>
       ```
   
 * Incase I haven’t made it clear, I want 10 posts per page displayed in the 2nd
   loop.
 * Thanks in advance,
    Jason

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 *  [Digital Raindrops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adeptris/)
 * (@adeptris)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-loop-help-please/#post-2158140)
 * Try [passing the exclude](http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Parameters)
   array:
    `post__not_in` (array) – use post ids. Specify post NOT to retrieve.
 * HTH
 * David

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