How do I get wordpress to override a previous posts query?

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I’ve got a page that has a category list at the top, and should normally list posts below it. The category list is created using: 

<?php $display_categories = array( 4, 7, 8, 9, 21, 1); $i = 1;
    foreach ( $display_categories as $category ) { ?>
        <div>
            <?php single_cat_title(); ?> //etc
        </div>
    <?php } 
?>

However, this seems to make the post loop order posts by category. I want it to ignore category ordering and order by date in descending order. I’ve created a new WP_Query since according to the docs you can’t use query_posts() twice, so just in case.

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<?php $q = new WP_Query( "cat=-1&showposts=15&orderby=date&order=DESC" );
    if ( $q->have_posts() ) : 
        while ( $q->have_posts() ) : $q->the_post(); ?>
            the_title(); // etc
        endwhile; 
    endif; 
?>

However, this still seems to be ordered by category (the same order as the list above) and then by date, as opposed to just by date.

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  1. I’ve had problems with this before as well.

    Try this:

    <?php
    global $post;
    $myposts = get_posts( 'numberposts=5' );
    foreach( $myposts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
        <div <?php post_class(); ?>>
            <div class="title">
                <h2>
                    <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
                </h2>
                <p class="small"><?php the_time( 'F j, Y' ); ?> by <?php the_author(); ?></p>
             </div>
             <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
         </div>
     <?php endforeach; 
 ?>

    The important line is global $post;.

    That should reset your global query. The setup_postdata($post) method is necessary to give you access to functions like the_author() or the_content().

    -Chris

  3. query_posts is finicky sometimes. Try something like this and see if it works:

    query_posts(array('category__not_in'=>array(1),
                  'showposts'=>15,
                  'orderby'=>date,
                  'order'=>DESC));

    Since that’s not the issue, try adding update_post_caches($posts) to the second loop, like this:

    <?php $q = new WP_Query("cat=-1&showposts=15&orderby=date&order=DESC");
if ( $q->have_posts() ) : while ( $q->have_posts() ) : $q->the_post(); update_post_caches($posts); ?>
the_title(); // etc
endwhile; endif; ?>

    Supposedly this solves some plugin problems.