I am trying to alter my query_posts. My homepage is currently displaying all posts from all categories at random (posts_per_page =>16)
The problem is, one of my categories is advertisements and I want to only show 2 advertisements per page. I want to keep the randomness, but sometimes I get way to many ads returned. I want to limit it to 1 or 2.
So how do I say get all posts from all categories but only 2 posts from category x.
Thanks
That sounds outside the scope of what you're going to get from query_posts. If you have a custom template for your home page and you want to sprinkle in advertisement posts I would change the query_posts() that excludes the advertisement category, do a separate get_posts() for 2 posts in the advertisement category, and then put them after the fourth and eighth (or something like that) non-advertisement posts in the loop.
The other way would be to increase your posts_per_page by a few and count each advertisement post as you display it in the loop. If any come up after the second one, just skip them.
Do it in your loop - check each post for the category it comes from. Keep a counter for this and when this reaches it limit do not show anymore.
Alternatively you could do two queries and merge them: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-queries-compiling-into-one-loop?replies=5#post-1920638
Not sure how this would affect the ordering of the posts.
