Title: Counting posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Counting posts

 *  [dusk_until_dawn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dusk_until_dawn/)
 * (@dusk_until_dawn)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/counting-posts/)
 * Hi,
 * First off, I am fairly new to WordPress and PHP.
 * I’ve done quite well so far on this theme I am creating but hit a block with 
   a certain page. As far as I can tell I need to customise the loop to get what
   I need.
 * Basically I have a page with 4 images on top, cleared and separated then on the
   bottom another 4 images all taken from the same custom post type.
 * If I just do the standard loop, it works fine but of course I want the top 4 
   images separated from the bottom and then some pagination onto other pages. Harder
   than I thought..
 * I’ve done some digging and from this i’ve learned I will need to create an increment
   variable. I’m only just learning PHP so this idea scares me!
 * I’d rather not use a plugin and if possible try and understand how to do this
   myself.
 * Hope some of this makes sense!
 * This is what I have without customising the loop:
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 * [count](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/count/)
 * [increment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/increment/)
 * [loop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/loop/)
 * [variable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/variable/)

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