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1. billbennett
   Member
   Posted 12 months ago #

   I've got two loops.

   One loop pulls the last four items from a category called "featured" thus:

   $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=featured&showposts=4');

   I'd like to have a second loop which pulls the last 8 items for every category EXCEPT featured. I wrote it using the minus sign to remove the unwanted category as:

   $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=-featured&showposts=8');

   But that does't work. Any ideas of a better way of doing this?

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 12 months ago #

   turn the category name into a category id first:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_cat_ID

   $cat_id = get_cat_ID('featured');

   then use:

   $my_query = new WP_Query('cat=-'.$cat_id.'&showposts=8');

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Category_Parameters

3. billbennett
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Thanks. This works.

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