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Hi imon,

How do you want to change what’s displayed?

Do you want a certain number of posts, posts only from one category, posts with a certain tag…?

Thanks

VW

no i am not changing any thing .

when i add the code then i have too many post displayed- duplicated posts.

for example if i have 12 post . when i add this code it displayed 24 post .

thanks

Understood, can you post the entire code of the file containing the query_posts as described above?

Yas !!

The question really is where are you putting it and as VaderW asked, what is the code. If more than 10 lines use a gist, or pastebin. ??

this is my code

<?php if(of_get_option('frontcat_checkbox') == "1"){ ?>
<?php if(is_front_page()) {
	 $args = array(
				   'cat' => ''.$os_front = of_get_option('front_cat').'',
				   'post_type' => 'post',
				   'paged' => ( get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1),
				   'posts_per_page' => ''.$os_fonts = of_get_option('frontnum_select').'');
	query_posts($args);
} ?>
<?php }?>

                   <?php query_posts('orderby=rand'); ?>

				   <?php

				    if(have_posts()): ?><?php while(have_posts()): ?><?php the_post(); ?>
                <div <?php post_class(); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

Looks like when the if statements are true, you query_posts twice, duplicating the posts. To get around this move the orderby=rand into the $args array, adjust the second query_posts() to use this array in it’s query, and remove the first query_posts() completely.

So try…

<?php if(of_get_option('frontcat_checkbox') == "1"){ ?>
<?php if(is_front_page()) {
// This sets the values of $args if the above both return true
	 $args = array(
				   'cat' => ''.$os_front = of_get_option('front_cat').'',
				   'post_type' => 'post',
				   'paged' => ( get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1),
				   'posts_per_page' => ''.$os_fonts = of_get_option('frontnum_select').'',
				   'orderby' => 'rand');
} ?>
<?php }?>

 <?php
// query_posts() occurs once, returning one set of posts matching the values of $args
query_posts($args); ?>

<?php
if(have_posts()):
// If we have the posts, display them ?>
<?php while(have_posts()): ?>
<?php the_post(); ?>
<div <?php post_class(); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

thanks

but its not working result is same