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copied!<p>What I am attempting to do is run two separate loops on my index page in Wordpress:</p> <p>One that does NOT HAVE posts from category 5</p> <p>And</p> <p>One that ONLY HAS posts from category 5</p> <p>I keep ending up with close to the right results but where the first loop shows what I want in the second loop (which baffles me) and a bunch of other anomalies.</p> <p>Here is the code:</p> <p>Loop 1:</p> <pre><code><?php $blogPreview = new WP_Query('cat=-5'); ?> <?php if ( $blogPreview->have_posts() ) : ?> <?php while ( $blogPreview->have_posts() ) : $blogPreview->the_post(); ?> <?php the_post(); ?> <?php get_template_part( 'content-index', get_post_format() ); ?> <?php endwhile; ?> <?php else : ?> Sorry, but there are currently no posts in the blog! <?php endif; ?> <?php wp_reset_query(); ?> </code></pre> <p>Loop 2 (slightly below loop 1 in my markup):</p> <pre><code><?php $testimonials = new WP_Query('cat=5'); ?> <?php if ( $testimonials->have_posts() ) : ?> <?php while ( $testimonials->have_posts() ) : $testimonials->the_post(); ?> <?php the_post(); ?> <?php get_template_part( 'content-index-testimonials', get_post_format() ); ?> <?php endwhile; ?> <?php else : ?> Sorry, but there are currently no posts in the blog! <?php endif; ?> <?php wp_reset_query(); ?> </code></pre> <p>Any Ideas? Thanks in advance</p> <p>Ok so that was fixed by removing "the_post()" from the loops.</p> <p>Now I cannot exclude this category for the life of me, I have tried all the following:</p> <pre><code><?php $blogPreview = new WP_Query('cat=-5'); ?> <?php $blogPreview = new WP_Query(array('category__not_in'=>5)); ?> <?php $blogPreview = new WP_Query('category__not_in'=>array(5)); ?> </code></pre> <p>are all failing to do it.</p>

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