[Resolved] Setting an offset with more than one view on a page

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[christopherM-4]

Tell us what you are trying to do?
So I've got a site that has three separate views on it:
1. Latest 5 posts or podcasts (a custom type I made)
2. Latest 5 posts with the category "executive"
3. Latest 5 podcasts

What I want is this, though:
1. Latest 5 posts or podcasts (a custom type I made)
2. Latest 5 posts with the category "executive," excluding any in View #1
3. Latest 5 podcasts, excluding any in View #1

The mixture of Executive posts, non-Executive posts and podcasts is not known from day to day--it varies.

What is the link to your site?

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[Luo Yang]

Dear Christopher,

There is a workaround for it, for example:
1) Add below codes in your theme/functions.php:

add_shortcode( 'hide-it', 'hide_it_func');
function hide_it_func($atts)
{
	return;
}

It will create a new shortcode [hide-it], we can use it to hide the extra HTML div tag in below view.

2) Create view #4: "view-1-only-ids", with same filters as View #1, but outputs only the post IDs:
a) In section "Loop Output Editor", edit the codes to only one line:

[hide-it][wpv-layout-start][/hide-it][wpv-items-found]<!-- wpv-loop-start --><wpv-loop>[wpv-item index=1][wpv-post-id][wpv-item index=other],[wpv-post-id]</wpv-loop><!-- wpv-loop-end -->[/wpv-items-found][wpv-no-items-found]<strong>[wpml-string context="wpv-views"]No items found[/wpml-string]</strong>[/wpv-no-items-found][hide-it][wpv-layout-end][/hide-it]

b) in section "Filter and Loop Output Integration Editor", edit the codes to only one line:

[wpv-layout-meta-html]

So it will output only the post IDs.

3) Edit the view #2 (Latest 5 posts with the category "executive") and view #3 (Latest 5 podcasts, excluding any in View #1), add a filter:
Exclude posts with IDs set by the View shortcode attribute "ids" eg. [wpv-view name="view-name" ids="1"]
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/filtering-views-query-by-post-id/

4) Edit the shortcode of view #2 and view #3 , setup the attribute "ids" as view #4, for example:
[wpv-view name="my-view-name" ids="[wpv-view name="view-1-only-ids"]"]

Then test again.

[christopherM-4]

So my view showing the IDs is properly generating them, but it's not translating into the other views correctly. See the home page:

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right above the lead slide show, you can see the IDs being generated, but you'll see that the stories are repeating down in the "Executive Edition" section.

[Luo Yang]

Which posts are the repeating post?
Please describe detail steps for how and where I can see the problem, thanks

[christopherM-4]

This one is repeating: Zumiez Founder Tom Campion and His Crazy, Winning Culture

[Luo Yang]

It works fine in my localhost, please provide a test site with same problem, and fill below private detail box with login details, also point out the problem page URL and view form URL, I need a live website to test and debug, thanks

[Luo Yang]

Thanks for the details, i can login your website, but I am not sure which one is the view #1 #2, #3 and #4, please point out the view URLs, I need to check you view settings.

[christopherM-4]

View #1 is Main Slider Owl
View #2 is Podcasts
View #3 is Executive Edition
View #4 is GetHomepageIds (I've tried one or two versions of this--others were view-1-only-ids and list-of-home-ids)

[Luo Yang]

I simply create a new page with below shortcodes to output each views in a simple page:
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<h2>View #1 is</h2>
[wpv-view name="main-slider-owl"]
<hr />

<h2>View #2 is Podcasts</h2>
[wpv-view name="podcasts" limit="1" ids="[wpv-view name='gethomepageids']"]
<hr />

<h2>View #3 is Executive Edition</h2>
[wpv-view name="executive-edition" limit="1" ids="[wpv-view name='gethomepageids']"]
<hr />

<h2>View #4 is GetHomepageIds</h2>
[wpv-view name='gethomepageids']

Test above page in front-end:
The view #4 outputs 5 post's IDs:
64986,64995,63980,63982,63988

and view #2 outputs post 63214, and view #3 output post ID 64011, can you check if it is what you want?

If it is, since you are using 35 plugins + custom theme, in case there is any compatibility problem in your website, please check this:
deactivate other plugins and switch to wordpress default theme, and test again, and locate the problem plugin or theme, I suggest you backup your website first.

[christopherM-4]

Got it! The problem was that we had put the shortcodes into a Divi theme "code" module, and apparently that wasn't rendering it correctly. When we changed it to a text module, your code worked! Thanks!!

[Luo Yang]

You are welcome