I am using 2 loops on the main page, one that shows the last post from the featured category and a general one with all the posts. The problem is that i get the last post in the featured category in both loops on the same page. It basically duplicates the post on that page. I can only seem to find how to exclude the entire category and I know how to do that. That is not what i need. I only want the latest post from the featured category excluded.
I was thinking i could somehow pull the ID of the post from the featured categ that I am already showing, store it in a variable and then exclude that variable from the main loop. However I am a beginner with both wordpress and php and am not quite sure how to do this.
Any thoughts ?
edit: this is the code i want to change:
<?php
$myPosts = new WP_Query( 'category_name=Featured&posts_per_page=1' );while ( $myPosts->have_posts() )
: $myPosts->the_post();
?>
<?php
if (has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) ):
$image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), 'single-post-thumbnail' );
endif;
$image_url = $image[0];
?>
<div class="index-featured-post"
style="background:linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(26,26,26,0.8) 0%, rgba(110,110,110,0.5) 50%, rgba(26,26,26,0.8) 100%), url(<?php echo $image_url; ?>)">
<div class="row">
<div class="large-8 large-centered columns">
<span class="cat-index"><?php the_category(); ?></span>
<?php the_title( sprintf( '<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="%s" rel="bookmark">', esc_url( get_permalink() ) ), '</a></h1>' ); ?>
<span class="post-tag-line"><?php the_field('post_tag_line'); ?></span>
<p class="ert-featured"><?php acn_estimated_reading_time() ?></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php
get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );
?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>