schultzy

Anyone have any ideas?

Ok, I think I got it. If someone could just take a look at the code and see if they see anything wrong. As far as I can tell, it works.

<font size="5">Latest Blog Entry</font>
<!-- begin news loop -->
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category=3&showposts=1'); ?>
<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>

		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<small>By <?php the_author() ?>  | <?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> <?php edit_post_link('(edit)'); ?></small>

			<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
			</div>

			<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '.<br />'); ?> Read more from <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
			</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<!-- end news loop -->

<font size="5">Latest Story</font>
<!-- begin story loop -->
<?php query_posts('cat=5,25,21,26,19,10,27,29,24&showposts=1'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();
if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue; ?>

		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<small>By <?php the_author() ?>  | <?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> <?php edit_post_link('(edit)'); ?></small>

			<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
			</div>

			<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '.<br />'); ?> Read more from <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
			</div>

  <?php endwhile; ?>
<!-- end story loop -->

I took the example from the page you directed me to and came up with the following code.

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category=3&showposts=1');
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
  $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;?>

<h1>Latest Blog Entry</h1>

		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><a>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<small>By <?php the_author() ?>  | <?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> <?php edit_post_link('(edit)'); ?></small>

			<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
			</div>

			<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '.'); ?> Read more from <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?>

			</div>

  <?php endwhile; ?>

  <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
  if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue; update_post_caches($posts); ?>

<h1>Latest Story</h1>
		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><a>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<small>By <?php the_author() ?>  | <?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> <?php edit_post_link('(edit)'); ?></small>

			<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
			</div>

			<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '.'); ?> Read more from <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?>

			</div>

  <?php endwhile; endif; ?>

So, it gives me a single post from category 3 and then follows with the other posts based on the default number of posts to show.

How do I specify that I want 1 post form categories x,y,z like I did for the first part of the loop?

Thanks for the quick response. I will give it a shot this afternoon and report if it worked or not. Thanks again.