Pagination With Multiple Loops Not Cycling Through Posts

[Jarret]

Ok, so another issue that I have run into is the fact that I have 2 loops running on the main page of the site but when trying to view older/newer posts I keep getting the same posts showing up so something is wrong with the pagination.

I'm using just a standard query_posts to pull the first 2 posts that I am displaying then I used another query_posts to pull the rest of the 7 posts that are displayed.

I've tried using posts_nav_link as well as the regular next/previous_posts_link but I'm still having issues with the posts not actually cycling through like they should. I'm obviously missing something here, anybody have any insight? I can post code if need be so let me know.

[DD32]

Have a look at this:
http://www.mikechick.net/2008/07/fix...n-query-posts/

Make sure you run get_query_var() before ANY query_posts on the page though.

heres a sniplet of code from that page:

<?php
$limit = get_option('posts_per_page');
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts('showposts=' . $limit . '&paged=' . $paged .'&cat=-166,-167,-168');
$wp_query->is_archive = true; $wp_query->is_home = false;
?>
  <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

..I'm not sure what the go is with people wraping booleans in () though, I also like the array style calling..

$page = get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts(
    array( 'showposts' => get_option('posts_per_page'),
              'paged' => $page,
              'cat' => array(-166, -167, -168)
    ) );

[Jarret]

Thanks for the info DD32! I'll take a look into it and let you know what happens :)

EDIT -- It worked perfectly DD32, thanks once again for the quick reply