Title: Loop question, making it display -1
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Loop question, making it display -1

 *  [Microdot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/microdot/)
 * (@microdot)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loop-question-making-it-display-1/)
 * Hi, does anybody know how to make the loop on the front page work in a kind of
   minus, so for example it will display the second to last post at the start.
 * So if the posts in the database are:
 * post 1
    post 2 post 3
 * it will only display
 * post 2
    post 3
 * many thanks for your help

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 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loop-question-making-it-display-1/#post-407247)
 * Rather than explain the physical look, explain the ‘theory’ behind what you are
   trying to do. Are you trying to hide a given post? Are you trying to show the
   first post special, then the rest? Etc.
 *  Thread Starter [Microdot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/microdot/)
 * (@microdot)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loop-question-making-it-display-1/#post-407268)
 * Yep, i’m trying to show the first post above the others, using a different format
   and plug in so it looks a bit special.. the the others towards the bottom of 
   the page.. thanks again
 *  [schulte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schulte/)
 * (@schulte)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loop-question-making-it-display-1/#post-407274)
 * Sounds like you’ll want to use two Loops…
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop)
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops)
 * the first using a query_posts showposts=1 parameter…and the second having a condition
   to omit displaying the first post…

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