Custom loop – Feature surrounded by other categories

[Josh Amato]

I've searched all over for a way to do this -- and I'm sure it's been so I'm probably not using the right terms -- so I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction.

I want to write a custom loop to display a featured article, surrounded by 4 articles that are not featured. These four articles are surrounded by any other category in order by date, the featured article may not be the newest but it would be the newest of the featured. I also want to repeat this all the way down the page. It would look like this:

[FEATURED] ------- [MISC ARTICLE]
[---------------] ------- [MISC ARTICLE]
[MISC ARTICLE --- [MISC ARTICLE]
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[FEATURED] ------- [MISC ARTICLE]
[---------------] ------- [MISC ARTICLE]
[MISC ARTICLE --- [MISC ARTICLE]
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[FEATURED] ------- [MISC ARTICLE]
[---------------] ------- [ BANNER AD ]
[MISC ARTICLE --- [MISC ARTICLE]

And so on. Any thoughts on how to do this? I believe I'd be able to get this done with the featured post amplified plugin, but I run into a pagination issue since I'd had to instantiate the plugin multiple times -- I'd like to make this an infinite scroll.

I am doing this on a custom child theme.

Thanks for any tips or direction!

[Brad Dalton]

Might help if you linked to what you have already done and posted a link to the code hosted somewhere like Github.

You'll get more interest that way however i suggest you post this question on WordPress.org or WordPress Developers as its a WordPress specific question not really native to StudioPress.

You may find this helpful WP_Query

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