Title: Multi loop & two column display
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Multi loop & two column display

 *  [jondoe_264](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jondoe_264/)
 * (@jondoe_264)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-loop-amp-two-column-display/)
 * I’m very new to WordPress and thus far it’s been a steep learning curve, especially
   being as coding is not my forte.
 * Through my inexperience I initially designed a page that features a partial two
   column layout, that is to say the index page features a prominent (featured) 
   post that spans the length of a div container, while beneath it two more posts
   would be displayed that occupy the same space horizontally as the featured post.
 * The featured post is displayed by way of a custom query,but I’d hoped to display
   the other two posts using the default loop.
 * So when I got to dealing with ‘The Loop’ I quickly realised that the standard
   WordPress loop will execute and output the same code, for the number of posts
   specified through the dashboard.
 * My problem is that the two horizontal containers are floated left and right and
   therefore do not share identical styling r.e.positioning. I’ve looked at my html
   and can’t see an easy way to address this so as to have identical mark-up and
   achieve the same horizontal layout.
 * So my enquire, before I start to re-design the page, was to see if there is a
   way of using multiple loops to display the 2nd and 3rd most recent posts?
 * Thanks for any help you are able to offer.
 * JD

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-loop-amp-two-column-display/#post-1265769)
 * This might help:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops)

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-loop-amp-two-column-display/#post-1265769)
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