Getting rid of page title when looping posts

Why not just omit the page title output within your Loop?

Mainly because I don’t like to make exceptions for bad things that are happening, but trying to prevent them from happening instead.

Sorry – I don’t follow you… A standard query returns all of the post details – including it’s title. It’s up to you whether that title is displayed or not. There is no “bad thing happening” here.

Ok, maybe I havn’t been clear enough. I want to show everything from the posts I’m looping out, but for some reason it also loops out the page title. I want to get rid of page title, page content, and so on, and only show the posts in that page. ?? follow?

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This is kind of pseudo-code for what im trying to achieve.

<?php $do_not_duplicate = array(); ?>

<?php if(have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
	<!-- the page info that i don't want to show -->
	<?php $do_not_duplicate[]= $post->ID; ?>
	<?php endwhile; ?>

	<!-- show post in cat 13 -->
	<?php query_post('cat=13&showposts=1'); ?>
	<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post();
	if(!in_array($post->ID,$do_not_duplicate)) {
	the_title();
	the_content();
	$do_not_duplicate[]= $post->ID; ?>
	<?php }
	endwhile; ?>

	<!-- show post in cat 14 -->
    <?php query_post('cat=14&showposts=1'); ?>
	<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post();
	if(!in_array($post->ID,$do_not_duplicate)) {
	the_title();
	the_content();
	$do_not_duplicate[]= $post->ID;?>
	<?php }
	endwhile; ?>

    <!-- show post in cat 15 -->
    <?php query_post('cat=15&showposts=1'); ?>
	<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post();
	if(!in_array($post->ID,$do_not_duplicate)) {
	the_title();
	the_content();
	$do_not_duplicate[]= $post->ID;?>
	<?php }
	endwhile; ?>

Right now this displays absolutely nothing. But maybe through this you have a better understanding on what I’m trying to do!

For starters, I’d suggest you use either get_posts or WP_Query. query_posts is only meant to be used to modifying the main query – not for creating secondary queries.

You might also want to review multiple Loops.

Thank you, I’ll look in to that.

omitt this whole section:

<?php if(have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
	<!-- the page info that i don't want to show -->
	<?php $do_not_duplicate[]= $post->ID; ?>
	<?php endwhile; ?>

because the first output is a page, it will never occur as duplicate in your posts.

or, if you don’t want any output of that page data, omitt at least this section:

<!-- the page info that i don't want to show -->

Thanks for the responses. After the suggestions and a bit of reading the code now looks like this:

<?php if(have_posts()); ?>
<?php $do_not_duplicate = array(); ?>
	<!-- show post in cat 13 -->
	<?php $myquery = new WP_Query();
	$myquery->query('cat=13&showposts=1'); ?>

	<?php while($myquery->have_posts()) : $myquery->the_post();
	if(!in_array($post->ID,$do_not_duplicate)) {
	the_title();
	the_content();
	$do_not_duplicate[]= $post->ID; ?>
	<?php }
	endwhile; ?>

	<!-- show post in cat 14 -->

	<?php $myquery1 = new WP_Query();
	$myquery1->query('cat=14&showposts=1'); ?>		    

	<?php while($myquery1->have_posts()) : $myquery1->the_post();
	if(!in_array($post->ID,$do_not_duplicate)) {
	the_title();
	the_content();
	$do_not_duplicate[]= $post->ID;?>
	<?php }
	endwhile; ?>

    <!-- show post in cat 15 -->
    <?php $myquery2 = new WP_Query();
	    $myquery2->query('cat=15&showposts=1'); ?>

	<?php while($myquery2->have_posts()) : $myquery2->the_post();
	if(!in_array($post->ID,$do_not_duplicate)) {
	the_title();
	the_content();
	$do_not_duplicate[]= $post->ID;?>
	<?php }
	endwhile; endif; ?>

The page doesn’t load though so theres something wrong to it. Any ideas?

Edit: used wp_reset_postdata(); without any improvements ??

Just figured out that the argument cat=13&showposts=1 doesnt work as intended. Tried to break it down into smaller pieces i noticed that when i change it to 2 posts it still only loops out one (the most recent) post, and the default page title.

Found the solution at https://digwp.com/2011/05/loops/ now by using the get_posts() template tag like this:

<?php global $post;
$args = array('numberposts'=>1, 'category' => 13, 'order' => 'ASC');
$custom_posts = get_posts($args);
foreach($custom_posts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); 

//all code for this post goes here

endforeach;
?>

and then make new static loops for each post I wanted.

Thanks for help