Querying Different Categories in Different Loop With Different Offsets - wordpress

Question

I have four loops. In the first loop I want to display all current articles from all categories (breaking news). In the 2nd loop only articles with the category 4,5,6,7 should be displayed. But if in the 1st loop an article from these categories were published, this newest article should not appear in the 2nd loop. So far I have only read about the general exclusion of articles but nothing about conditions.

Answer 1

You must use category__not_in:
$include_cats = array( 4, 5, 6, 7 );
$exclude_cats = array( 3 ); // 'breaking news' TERM ID
$posts_args = array(
'post_type' => 'post',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => 4 ,
'ignore_sticky_posts' => true,
'category__in' => $include_cats,
'category__not_in' => $exclude_cats,
'orderby' => 'date',
);
$posts = new WP_Query( $posts_args );
if ( $posts->have_posts() ) {
while ( $posts->have_posts() ) {
$posts->the_post();
?>
<a href="<?php echo get_the_permalink( $posts->post->ID ); ?>" title="<?php echo get_the_title( $posts->post->ID ); ?>">
<?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail( $posts->post->ID ) ) {
echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $posts->post->ID, $img, array( 'class' => 'post-thumb' ) ); // YOUR IMAGE SIZE
} else {
echo '<img class="' . $img . '" src="placeholder.png" width="150" height="150" alt="' . get_the_title( $posts->post->ID ) . '">'; //ADD PLACEHOLDER IMAGE HERE
}
?>
<h3 class="post-title"><?php echo get_the_title( $posts->post->ID ); ?></h3>
<span class="author"><?php echo get_the_author( $posts->post->ID ); ?></span>
</a>
<?php
}
}
wp_reset_postdata();