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The code from the page

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query( 'category_name=featured&posts_per_page=1' );
while ( $my_query->have_posts() ) : $my_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>
	<!-- Do stuff... -->
<?php endwhile; ?>
	<!-- Do other stuff... -->
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
if ( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue; ?>
	<!-- Do stuff... -->
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

But I reckon I still have to put the posts into a specific category (ie. “featured”) in order to exclude it from the second/third/forth loop?

From that article

Thanks for the info. Worked well 🙂 Though, I’m encountering another issue for another site I’m currently doing. Is there a way to exclude from the loop only the latest post of a particular category?

Thing is, I’ve a blog that publishes podcasts. The front page highlights the most recent podcast – posts are published under category: Podcast – via its own styling. At the same time, the front page also shows the last 5 most recent posts, of which may include posts under the category “podcast”. I just don’t want to show in the loop the most recent post published under “Podcast” simply because it’s already featured with it’s own styling. Hope you can help me out. thanks!

You can exclude all posts from the category “postcast” from your loop if you want. But there is no simple way of excluding just the latest post.

probably got to dive into the codex page 🙁

Kind of nailed it by
(1) adding a class in css
(2) changing the excerpt limit
(3) making use of ‘max-height’ to manually set limit for non-featured posts
(as i want 100 for featured and around 30 for non-featured)

Don’t think this is the proper solution though
(having excerpts that can only be seen by viewing the page source lol)