Hey everyone,

I'm reading the codex regarding the loop and while I think I understand the code examples there, I'm having a hard time integrating it with this theme.

Currently I'm using the same loop but I need it to be modified so that it displays 5 posts from each of these categories: featured post, news, deals.

Here is the default code, can someone help me modify it to what I need it to be? TIA.

<?php /* Post Container starts here */ if ( function_exists('post_class') ) { ?>
	<?php query_posts('category_name=Deals&showposts=1'); ?>
 
	<div <?php if ( is_page() ) { post_class('post'); } else { post_class("$odd_or_even"); } ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
	<?php } else { ?>
	<div class="<?php echo ( is_page() ? 'page ' : '' ) . $odd_or_even . ' post" id="post-'; the_ID(); ?>">
	<?php } ?> <?php bfa_post_kicker('<div class="post-kicker">','</div>'); ?> 
	<?php bfa_post_headline('<div class="post-headline">','</div>'); ?> 
	<?php bfa_post_byline('<div class="post-byline">','</div>'); ?>
	<?php bfa_post_bodycopy('<div class="post-bodycopy clearfix">','</div>'); ?>
	<?php bfa_post_pagination('<p class="post-pagination"><strong>'.__('Pages:','atahualpa').'</strong>','</p>'); ?>	 
	<?php bfa_post_footer('<div class="post-footer">','</div>'); ?>

	</div><!-- / Post -->

The code in the text area The LOOP is just the loop. query_posts code needs to be put before the loop, in Atahualpa's case into the text area above, named Content ABOVE the LOOP

Oh.. I wasn't aware of that at all. I'll have to give that a try today. That's probably why it's pretty messed up. Thanks, Flynn.

What Flynn said was correct. However, what if I have multiple loops? So for now, I want three loops:

<?php query_posts_deals('category_name=Deals&showposts=1'); ?>

<?php rewind_posts(); ?>
<?php query_posts_news = new WP_Query('category_name=news&showposts=1');

<?php rewind_posts(); ?>
<?php query_posts_featured_posts = new WP_Query('category_name=Featured Posts&showposts=1');

Should all three appear in the ABOVE LOOP section? Right now I think it shows the proper posts but also displays an error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in C:\xampplite\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\atahualpa.3.4.1\atahualpa\functions .php(389) : eval()'d code on line 14

How do I do this properly? My display could be wrong, because I only have one post for each category right now anyway. But anyway... any ideas?

Flynn or anyone, is what I'm asking for possible using Atahualpa?

For multiple loops you should create a new page template. Creating page templates has been discussed a few times here and there are also a few pages on the Wordpress.org codex. Keep in mind that multiple loops aren't easy especially if you want to keep proper next/previous page navigation.