Title: Need Help Working With Multiple Loops
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Need Help Working With Multiple Loops

 *  Resolved [kevin_curry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevin_curry/)
 * (@kevin_curry)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-working-with-multiple-loops/)
 * The site I’m working on is [ZipRage](http://ziprage.com). Basically I would like
   to modify the theme to give it more of a magazine style layout and this requires
   working with multiple loops which is throwing me for a loop. Here is what I want
   to do. I would like the most recent post to show in full on the home page only,
   then I would like to show the second two posts as excerpts finally beneath that
   two posts per category in two columns. To Illustrate:
 * | Full Post |
    | Excerpt | | Excerpt | |Cat 1 ||Cat 1 | |Cat 2 ||Cat 2 | |Cat
   3 ||Cat 3 | |Cat 4 ||Cat 4 |
 * Any guidance is very much appreciated. I’m pretty confident I can handle the 
   CSS/XHTML work required to make the columns look good I just need help creating
   the loop. Thanks.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-working-with-multiple-loops/#post-1457378)
 *     ```
       <?php
       // get threee posts, display content for first, excerpt fot the other two
       $count = 0;
       $args=array(
         'post_type' => 'post',
         'post_status' => 'publish',
         'posts_per_page' => 3,
         'caller_get_posts'=> 1
       );
       $my_query = null;
       $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
       if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
         while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
           <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
           <?php
           $count++;
           if ( $count < 2 ) {
             the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;');
           } else {
             the_excerpt();
           }
         endwhile;
       }
       wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
       ?>
       <?php
       //get all categories and display two posts from each category
       $taxonomy = 'category';
       $param_type = 'category__in';
       $term_args=array(
         'orderby' => 'name',
         'order' => 'ASC'
       );
       $terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$term_args);
       if ($terms) {
         foreach( $terms as $term ) {
           $args=array(
             "$param_type" => array($term->term_id),
             'post_type' => 'post',
             'post_status' => 'publish',
             'posts_per_page' => 2,
             'caller_get_posts'=> 1
             );
           $my_query = null;
           $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
           if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
             $count = 0;
             echo 'List of Posts in '.$taxonomy .' '.$term->name;
             while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
             $count++;
             if ( $count < 2 ) {  ?>
             <!---handle column 1 here --->
             <?php
           } else { ?>
             <!---handle column 2 here --->
           <?php
            }
            ?>
            <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
              <?php
             endwhile;
           }
         }
       }
       wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
       ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [kevin_curry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevin_curry/)
 * (@kevin_curry)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-working-with-multiple-loops/#post-1457398)
 * That’s amazing thank you very much! One other question using this the navlink
   which takes you to the next page will display the next page which is exactly 
   the same as the first. Can you make the above code conditional for the front 
   page only and then every page after that would just be the category columns with
   posts ordered by date?
 *  Thread Starter [kevin_curry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevin_curry/)
 * (@kevin_curry)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-working-with-multiple-loops/#post-1457444)
 * One more question. If I wanted to show a selection of categories instead of all
   of them would I just add to the $args=array(
    ‘include’ => 1,2,etc..?
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-working-with-multiple-loops/#post-1457528)
 * >  Can you make the above code conditional for the front page
 * Wrap that first loop in a Conditional Tag such as
 *     ```
       <?php
       // get threee posts, display content for first, excerpt for the other two
       if (is_home()) {
       $count = 0;
   
       ///first loop here
   
       wp_reset_query(); // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
       }
       ?>
       ```
   
 * >  If I wanted to show a selection of categories
 *     ```
       $term_args=array(
       'orderby' => 'name',
       'order' => 'ASC',
       'include' => '71,22,3'
       );
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [kevin_curry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevin_curry/)
 * (@kevin_curry)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-working-with-multiple-loops/#post-1457535)
 * Are you a volunteer or do you get paid for this awesome help. I ended up using
   the following code to just show my layout on the front page:
 * > <?php
   >  // create first page content $paged = get_query_var(‘paged’); if ($paged
   > < 2): ?>
 * Huge thanks for the second code I couldn’t get it to work for the life of me 
   today. You cleared up a huge headache.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-working-with-multiple-loops/#post-1457555)
 * Except for automattic.com employess, the rest of us are volunteers.
 * Good luck. Will mark this resolved.
 *  [quemultimedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quemultimedia/)
 * (@quemultimedia)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-working-with-multiple-loops/#post-1457796)
 * Greetings Guys,
 * Foremost, allow me to thank Kevin_Curry for the straight forward question, and
   also to thank MichaelH for the code and explanation.
 * I’ve been caught up in a similar bind { trying to implement a custom front page
   layout : Carousel/ Slideshow from Category 1, then a 3-Col Horizontal Sequence
   of posts { limited to either 3, or 6 }, from a second category.
 * MichaelH’s code works perfect { pulling posts from all categories, and sequencing
   posts into two columns }. How can this code be adapted for use in the 3 column
   setup described above?
 * Cheers
    Q

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