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    copied!<p>I have a template file (<strong>trendingPosts.php</strong>) for showing 2 latest posts with the tag 'trending'. In the while loop for displaying these 2 posts, I take their ID's in an array so I can exclude them from the main wordpress loop later:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div id="trendingWrap" class="clearfix"&gt; &lt;?php $trending = new WP_Query(); $trending-&gt;query("showposts=2&amp;tag=trending"); while($trending-&gt;have_posts()) : $trending-&gt;the_post(); $wp_query-&gt;in_the_loop = true; $currentTrending[] = $post-&gt;ID; ?&gt; &lt;div class="trendingStory"&gt; &lt;h2 class="trendingTitle"&gt;&lt;a href="&lt;?php the_permalink(); ?&gt;" alt="&lt;?php the_title_attribute(); ?&gt;"&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- end trendingStory --&gt; &lt;?php endwhile; ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- end trendingWrap --&gt; </code></pre> <p>The problem is that I have an <strong>index.php</strong> in which I include the <strong>loop.php</strong> via <code>get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' );</code> and I am unable to get the <code>$currentTrending[]</code> array that I made in <strong>trendingPosts.php</strong>. <strong>I need to get that array in my <em>loop.php</em></strong></p> <p>Moreover, in my <strong>loop.php</strong>, I am excluding the 2 posts in the following way.</p> <pre><code>if(have_posts()): while(have_posts()) : the_post(); if( $post-&gt;ID == $currentTrending[0] || $post-&gt;ID == $currentTrending[1] ) continue; </code></pre> <p>Is this the right way to exclude posts? if anybody has a better way of doing this whole thing. Please let me know. <strong>Of course nothing works until I manage to get that array in <em>loop.php</em> so that is the main issue.</strong></p> <p>Thanks! I appreciate all the help.</p>
 

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