Title: Offset Specific Category from Main Loop
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Offset Specific Category from Main Loop

 *  [Devcom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garrettcgoeppinger/)
 * (@garrettcgoeppinger)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offset-specific-category-from-main-loop/)
 * My goal is for my main blog page to have a slider of three posts from the Featured
   category. However, I don’t want to duplicate these posts in the main feed below.
 * This is my attempt:
 * In my main blog page, I have two separate loops. The first is a custom WP_Query
   that gets the most recent 3 posts from the Featured Category (I will be turning
   this into a slider which is irrelevant here). It looks like this…
 *     ```
       <?php
                       $args = array(
                         'post_type'     => 'post',
                         'category_name' => 'featured',
                         'orderby'       => 'date',
                         'order'         => 'DESC',
                         'posts_per_page'=> '3',
                         );
   
                     $featured_posts= new WP_Query($args);
                     if($featured_posts->have_posts()) : while($featured_posts->have_posts()) :      $featured_posts->the_post(); ?>
                     <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
                   <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * Then, I run my normal query to get all the posts. It looks like this…
 *     ```
       <?php if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
             --Do something--
         <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * Finally, in my functions.php file, I have the following function that hooks into“
   pre_get_posts” action hook to offset my main query by 3. It looks like this:
 *     ```
       function wpsites_exclude_latest_post($query) {
       if ($query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query()) {
       $query->set( 'offset', '3' );
         }
       }
       add_action('pre_get_posts', 'wpsites_exclude_latest_post');
       ```
   
 * Everything is almost working except I want to only offset those posts from the“
   featured” category so they move from the slider and then down into the main loop
   and never duplicate. How can I offset the main query by three but only from the
   featured category? Am I going about this the correct way?

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offset-specific-category-from-main-loop/#post-5491056)
 * One way to do this is to save the IDs in the first loop in an array. Then, re-
   issue the query for the second loop after adding in the ‘post__not_in’ argument
   with the array of IDs. Assuming you named your array of saved post IDs as $saved_ids,
   you would re-issue the query like this (untested):
 *     ```
       global $wp_query;
       query_posts(
          array_merge(
             $wp_query->query,
             array('post__not_in' => $saved_ids)
          )
       );
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offset-specific-category-from-main-loop/#post-5491056)
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