Title: Query posts options
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Query posts options

 *  [blicht454](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blicht454/)
 * (@blicht454)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-posts-options/)
 * Hello, I’m trying to find a simple way to query posts where the first three are
   placed in one div and the rest are placed in another. Any ideas?
    Thank you!

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-posts-options/#post-2470549)
 * how simple depends on your existing theme;
 * you could try and work with a counter variable and some conditional statements
   within the loop, to check for the first and third post, and to add the div(s)
   accordingly.
 * please post a link to your site for more detailed suggestions.
 *  Thread Starter [blicht454](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blicht454/)
 * (@blicht454)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-posts-options/#post-2470556)
 * The site is still not online, so unfortunately I can’t post a link yet. I’m building
   the theme from scratch.
 * Can you explain how a counter variable would work? I’ve never done that before.
 * What I’m trying to do is use query posts to find the first three (most recent)
   posts on the first pass, and then all other posts on the second pass…
 * Let me know if that makes sense.

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 * [posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/posts/)
 * [query](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/query/)

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