Exclude most recent posts from only 1 category

You’re probably better off dropping the custom query and just setting up a counter and an in_category() conditional to skip the first 4 posts from cat 15.

<?php if (have_posts()) :
$c=0;
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
if( in_category('15) ) $c++;
if(  in_category('15) && $c < 5 ) skip;
?>

Hi esmi,
Thanks very much for your reply, but I should have included all the code that I am using. This query is outside the loop, as the main loop is in action elsewhere on the page.

If I use the code you suggest, it upsets the conditional statement below, which basically applies the style ‘on’ to the post if it appears elsewhere on the page.

<?php
$loop = new WP_Query
( array( 'post_type' => 'sport', 'cat' => '-15', 'posts_per_page' => 10 ) );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();?>
<li<?php if
( $post->ID == $wp_query->post->ID )
{ echo ' class="on"'; } else {} ?>></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Any ideas as to how to make your suggested code work with this?

Thanks a million,
James

<?php $c=0;
$loop = new WP_Query
( array( 'post_type' => 'sport', 'cat' => '-15', 'posts_per_page' => 10 ) );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
if( in_category('15) ) $c++;
if(  in_category('15) && $c < 5 ) skip;?>
<li<?php if
( $post->ID == $wp_query->post->ID )
{ echo ' class="on"'; } else {} ?>></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Thanks, but it doesn’t work for some reason. It is including all posts from category 15, and isn’t excluding any.

This is what I have:

<?php $c=0;
$loop = new WP_Query
( array( 'post_type' => 'sport','posts_per_page' => 10 ) );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
if( in_category('15') ) $c++;
if(  in_category('15') && $c < 5 ) skip;?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Any ideas what may be missing?
Thanks.

What do you have between if( in_category('15') && $c < 5 ) skip;?> and <?php endwhile; ?>? Is this Loop replacing the standard Loop?

This is in addition to the standard loop, which is further down the page.

This is what I have in full:

<?php $c=0;
$loop = new WP_Query
( array( 'post_type' => 'sport','posts_per_page' => 10 ) );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();?>
if( in_category('15') ) $c++;
if(  in_category('15') && $c < 5 ) skip;?>
<li<?php if ( $post->ID == $wp_query->post->ID ) { echo ' class="on"'; } else {} ?>>
<a href="<?php the_permalink()?>">
<div class="green">
<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'sport_other', true);?>:</div>
</a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>

This is the main loop further down the page:

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

I also have another wp_query before the wp_query above which is as follows:

<?php $loop = new WP_Query
( array( 'post_type' => 'sport', 'cat' => '15', 'posts_per_page' => 4 ) );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();?>

The above are the 4 posts I am trying to exclude from the second loop!

Thanks Esmi for your help.

Just a hunch but I think it’s not working because you’re using $loop->the_post() instead of $post(). Try using in_category('15', $post->ID) instead and see if that helps.

Tried that, but still not working!

I also changed ‘loop’ to ‘my_query’ as follows:

<?php $c=0; $my_query = new WP_Query
( array( 'post_type' => 'sport','posts_per_page' => 10 ) );
while ( $my_query->have_posts() ) : $my_query->the_post();
if( in_category('15', $post->ID) ) $c++;
if( in_category('15', $post->ID) && $c < 5 ) skip;?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Oh… sorry, sorry, sorry. It’s me. where I got skip from, I don’t know! Try replacing skip; with continue;