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Soz i’m a noob. Forgot the get_previous_post!

Solved

Thanks for the input, but i was looking for an expert opinion.

Ok, i’ve read some SQL because i was a bit rusty and i got the queries. After that i export it to CSV and then edit it manually. Now i don’t know how to upload the file because it lists only the post titles.

Alchymyth you’re amazing!
It work, and it seems not to affect the pagination.
Thank you for helping me out.

The thing is $popular_loop displays the most viewed posts and the main loop displays the normal posts, without the most viewed ones from the $popular_loop. The code above is updated to query_posts, but it’s the same thing.

Here you go, i solved it with query_posts but the archive.php is similar to the index file so the problem will persist.

https://pastebin.com/Kvk2k8gD

It works if i use the query_posts on main loop:

<?php query_posts(array('post__not_in'=>$do_not_duplicate));
 if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
 ?>

Can’t understand why my way didn’t work.

Ok after some hours i got this working:
Wp_query:

<?php  $cat_ID = get_query_var('cat'); $popular_loop = new WP_Query('cat='.$cat_ID.'&showposts=3&v_sortby=views');
    if( $popular_loop->have_posts() ): while( $popular_loop->have_posts() ): $popular_loop->the_post(); $do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID; ?>

Main Loop:
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); if(in_array($post->ID, $do_not_duplicate)) continue; ?>

I’m still working on this and i can’t get it done.
It is a category.php theme file and i have a normal loop to display the category posts, and now i need a wp_query to show the popular posts of the same category, but this wp_query is displayed first (don’t know if this matters).
Getting killed on this lol

I still can’t get there. Damn this isn’t easy but i won’t rest until i get this to work. The problem is my lack of skills in php ??
I still can’t get the category id from the main loop, and avoid the duplicate issues on the wp_query.
Simple Mode On:

– Query1( Wp_query that lists the 4 most popular posts of the main loop category, avoiding the duplicate on the main loop )
&
– Query2 ( Main Loop that lists the posts from the current category and i have a pre_get_posts hook that forces it to list 36 posts per page and it needs to avoid duplicated content from the wp_query )

Update: The problem i’m facing now is that i need to create a WP_query that gets the top 4 most viewed post (this i know how) and in the category of the main loop (this i don’t).
So i need to extract the category id or something from the main loop into a variable and then get it in the wp_query? Or there is a simple way to achieve this?

Update2:
I used this on the main loop:
<?php global $post; if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue; ?>
And this on the wp_query:

<?php $popular_loop = new WP_Query(array('v_sortby' => 'views', 'v_orderby' => 'desc', 'posts_per_page' => '4', 'cat' => $post>category_id));
    if( $popular_loop->have_posts() ): while( $popular_loop->have_posts() ): $popular_loop->the_post(); $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>

But right now i get the data backwards but i think i can fix it. Are the queries ok?

Ok i’m using now the pre_get_posts and wow it’s awesome. But this still doesn’t solve my problem.
$query->set( 'cat', '-5' );
I would need it to use the current category but i don’t know how to achieve this. I think i need to call $args but i’m not shure.

And i have another problem, i have this wp_query

<?php $popular_loop = new WP_Query( array('v_sortby' => 'views', 'v_orderby' => 'desc', 'posts_per_page' => '4' ));
    if( $popular_loop->have_posts() ): while( $popular_loop->have_posts() ): $popular_loop->the_post(); ?>

But this code will call out all the posts and i need to get the popular ones on the category i’m currently on.
Sorry for asking this questions, these are probably WordPress dummy stuff

Sorry for not being very specific. My problem is that i want to exclude posts on the main loop, and this posts are in a wp_query.
Example:
In my category template i show the top 5 popular posts across the pages, and i want to avoid duplicated content on the main loop.

Same here.
If i had 2 websites on my vps i think i could crash the server rack lol. It only gives me problems when i log to the administration and ff i stay out of it the site is ok. When i need to post or do anything in the administration i deactivate the plugin (sometimes it isn’t an easy task).
Waiting for a fix.

Ok i’ve discovered that it isn’t a template issue and i tweaked my code using the codex.
Thanks anyway.