soeezauto

Hello karpstrucking, thanks for your reply.

In the meantime I was pursuing another ways to do this and found a tip
at StackOverflow (lost the link since them ).

I actually did not try your method, but it seems in line with what I found in the end.

So, I put the post ID’s from the first loop in an array and then, in the second loop, just skipped the posts whose ID were on the ID array.

Thanks again!

<?php
$tag = $brand;

    $args=array(
      'tag' => $tag,
      'showposts'=>5
    );
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
$id=array();
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      echo '<h2>Articles liés à '.$tag.':</h2>';
$nct = $my_query->post_count;
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<div class="news_call">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3></a>

	<div class="storycontent">
		<?php the_content(__('(lire la suite...)')); ?>
	</div>
</div>
<?php
$ids[]= $post->ID;//**** GOT THE ID's HERE****
      endwhile;
    }
if((!isset($nct) or $nct < 5)){
(isset($nct) ? $n_posts = 6-$nct : $n_posts=5);
	global $post;
$args = array( 'posts_per_page' => $n_posts,
	       );
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
     if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      echo '<h2>Articles récents:</h2>';

      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
     if ( !isset($ids) or !in_array($post->ID, $ids)){ //*** EXCLUDED POSTS WITH ID SAME AS IN ID ARRAY****
      ?>
<div class="news_call">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3></a>

	<div class="storycontent">
		<?php the_content(__('(lire la suite...)')); ?>
	</div>
</div>
<?php }endwhile;
}
    }
  wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().

?>

I seem to have found the problem,which was the loop above.

I have replaced with the one below ( copied/pasted from some part of the Codex) already with some customization to show desired set up for my homepage.

<div class="blog_call">
 <?php
global $post;
$args = array( 'posts_per_page' => 3 );
$myposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach( $myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post); ?>
<div class="news_call">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3></a>

	<div class="storycontent">
		<?php the_content(__('(more...)')); ?>
	</div>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>  

</div>

Ok,

on my homepage, index.php:
first thing on top ( ok, second actually, there is mod_rewrite stuff that should come first):

<?php
require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

then on my right column I created a division class blog_call, like below, which does show the excerpts or contents, whatever I choose.
Always very much in line with what you see on my web site today.

Exactly the same set up was repeated on my blog page, only that THE LOOP goes into another division, the main content.

Thing is, at this page, the article/excerpt does not show. I get the message ‘no posts match your criteria’. As the loops are identical I was expecting to see the same result in both pages.

I was under the impression that I could replicate the article/excerpt at will, per the setup I explained on my orginal post.

Thanks for your assistance

<div class="blog_call"> 

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<?php the_date('','<h2>','</h2>'); ?>

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" >
	 <h3 class="storytitle"><a>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
	<div class="meta"><?php _e("Filed under:"); ?> <?php the_category(',') ?> — <?php the_author() ?> @ <?php the_time() ?> <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit This')); ?></div>

	<div class="storycontent">
		<?php the_excerpt(__('(more...)')); ?>
	</div>

	<div class="feedback">
            <?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
            <?php comments_popup_link(__('Comments (0)'), __('Comments (1)'), __('Comments (%)')); ?>
	</div>

</div>

<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>

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