Title: Using loops and query_posts Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Using loops and query_posts * [clarke1866](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clarke1866/) * (@clarke1866) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/) * Greetings, * I’m messing around with the loop in WP and I’m trying to get some custom query’s working. Here is the basic query: ` if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()): the_post(); // Do stuff like format each post etc endwhile; * It works just fine. Here is the trick, how can I do the same exact query but instead of ‘doing stuff’ to every post, do stuff to every post except a post whose id is XX (whatever # I choose). * **In other words, how can I use query_posts (or any query, I dont’ care which function) to get and display all posts except one whose ID I specify?** * Is it posible to use something like` !=$some_post_number` where $some_post_number is already declared? * Thanks for any help. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/page/2/?output_format=md) * [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/) * (@coldforged) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192286) * There’s no way to specify to exclude a post by post ID in The Loop. That said, is there any reason you can just skip over it in your Loop processing? In other words: * `if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); if( $post->ID == $that_post_I_hate) continue; // Do stuff like format each post etc endwhile; * Thread Starter [clarke1866](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clarke1866/) * (@clarke1866) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192288) * I’ll give it a whirl, that sounds like a much better idea than what I had in mind! Will post results * [Cyndy Otty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceo/) * (@ceo) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192315) * If that doesn’t work, you could always create a special category for that post you want to exlude and then just exclude that category in the loop. (Or if it’s just a post you’re trying to leave out…you could always make it private, unless you’re not trying to hide it from the public altogether.) * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192316) * It just never makes sense for me why to make a post if you don’t want to show it to anyone? * [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/) * (@root) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192366) * You need something like: * * [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/) * (@coldforged) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192372) * > You need something like: > `` * Which currently _doesn’t_ exist. Just didn’t want to confuse the initial poster. * [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/) * (@root) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192373) * What do you mean it doesnt exist? Where does it not exist ? * [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/) * (@coldforged) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192377) * I mean there’s no point in the code where WP correctly handles a negative number for a ‘p’ in the query string. It simply gets placed in the WHERE clause of the query with an ” AND ID = “. * [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/) * (@root) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192379) * Is that true for cats as well? or is cat=-2 Ok? * [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/) * (@coldforged) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192380) * Yes, `cat` _does_ have special handling for a single exclusion. * [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/) * (@root) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192381) * If that is right – and it presumably is because coldforged knows whereof he speaks I would allocate the private post to its own cat and exclude that. * [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/) * (@root) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192382) * Thanks for that. * [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/) * (@coldforged) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192384) * Most welcome. * [ifelse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ifelse/) * (@ifelse) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192388) * _Yes, cat does have special handling for a single exclusion._ … though currently imperfect special handling:-) * Thread Starter [clarke1866](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clarke1866/) * (@clarke1866) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/#post-192544) * Hey all, I wrote up why I wanted to use two loops and skip a post. Head to my site, [MaxPower](http://www.maxpower.ca) and see [this post](http://www.maxpower.ca/wordpress-hack-creating-a-dynamic-sticky/2005/04/23/) for a full explanation. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Using loops and query_posts’ is closed to new replies. * 16 replies * 7 participants * Last reply from: [Jay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/topdownjimmy/) * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-loops-and-query_posts/page/2/#post-193143) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics