Title: Multiple loops, same posts…
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Multiple loops, same posts…

 *  [dbunit16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbunit16/)
 * (@dbunit16)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-loops-same-posts/)
 * I installed Featured Content Slider v2.4 on my site:
 * [http://embeddedcomputingsystems.com/2/?page_id=5](http://embeddedcomputingsystems.com/2/?page_id=5)
 * I am pulling content from my WordPress install… my issue is that while my stories
   are loading in the first portion, I also need then image thumbnails to load in
   the the pagination portion…
 * I have tried to use multiple “loops” to grab the post’s image, title, and link
   in the first loop. I can’t seem to get the second loop to work to pull my “thumb”
   custom field.
 *     ```
       <div id="slider1" class="sliderwrapper">
       <?php query_posts('showposts=3'); // First loop, we only get the most recent post
       if (have_posts()) :
       while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
       <div class="contentdiv">
       <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><img src="<?php $key="image"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" border="0" style="border: 3px solid #333333; filter:alpha(opacity=60); opacity:0.6;"/></a>
       <div class="topstorysm">
       <h4><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
       <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
       <span class="comments"><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></span>
       </div>
       </div>
       <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
       </div>
   
       <div id="paginate-slider1" class="pagination">
   
       <?php query_posts('showposts=3'); // Second loop
       if (have_posts()) :
            while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
       <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="toc"><img src="<?php $key="thumb"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" border="0" /></a>
       <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
   
       </div>
   
       <script type="text/javascript">
   
       featuredcontentslider.init({
       	id: "slider1",  //id of main slider DIV
       	contentsource: ["inline", ""],  //Valid values: ["inline", ""] or ["ajax", "path_to_file"]
       	toc: ["markup"],  //Valid values: "#increment", "markup", ["label1", "label2", etc]
       	nextprev: ["<img src='prev.gif' />", "<img src='next.gif' />"],  //labels for "prev" and "next" links. Set to "" to hide.
       	revealtype: "click", //Behavior of pagination links to reveal the slides: "click" or "mouseover"
       	enablefade: [true, 0.2],  //[true/false, fadedegree]
       	autorotate: [true, 6000],  //[true/false, pausetime]
       	onChange: function(previndex, curindex){  //event handler fired whenever script changes slide
       		//previndex holds index of last slide viewed b4 current (1=1st slide, 2nd=2nd etc)
       		//curindex holds index of currently shown slide (1=1st slide, 2nd=2nd etc)
       	}
       })
   
       </script>
       ```
   
 * Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
 * Jon

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 *  [mores](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mores/)
 * (@mores)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-loops-same-posts/#post-993625)
 * use `offset`.
    the second loop starts all over again, so you want to ignore the
   first posts that were displayed in the first loop.
 * `<?php query_posts('showposts=3&offset=3'); // Second loop`
 * EDIT: sorry, that was a totally unnecessary reply 🙁
    I didn’t understand what
   you were actually trying to do 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [dbunit16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbunit16/)
 * (@dbunit16)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-loops-same-posts/#post-993632)
 * Yeah, I don’t want to offset though…. I want to call the same three posts again…
   is this possible?
 *  Thread Starter [dbunit16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbunit16/)
 * (@dbunit16)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-loops-same-posts/#post-993633)
 * Is it “rewind” that I need to use? Someone has to know the answer to this!

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