Title: Offset and Start With Loop?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Offset and Start With Loop?

 *  Resolved [fredhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredhead/)
 * (@fredhead)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offset-and-start-with-loop/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve got three columns to fill — left, right, and below. HTML code being linear,
   I now have the loop pulling 50 results and then using a PHP $i variable to count,
   dumping 8 entries in the left column, then 8 in the right column, then the rest
   as headlines in the bottom column below the other two. Pretty straightforward
   stuff.
 * However, the client now wants the right column to load the first 1-8 entries,
   the left column entries 9-15, and the bottom column as before.
 * I believe I’ve done this in MoveableType using start= and offset= values within
   a tag. But it was three database calls in this scenario. How can I make the loop
   do something like this: pull 50 results, then grab results 9-15 for the left 
   column, entries 1-8 for the right column, and the rest for the bottom column?
   Failing that, is it possible to do three loop calls in the index.php template?
 * Any ideas would be welcome, thank you!

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