Multiple loops on same page with different image sizes?

[Henrik Blomgren]

Hi Studiopress forum,

I want to ask you something. I´m redesigning my portfolio. I want the front page to look like this image
https://app.box.com/s/s1x4grepxk07c3mx0utb

If I had done this the "normal" way with php I would have divided it into 3 parts. One Intro, one Portfolio and one Blog. Each part would have gotten either widget or php code written onto it. Most likely I would have sent the reader to a special file called front-portfolio for the portfolio part for example.

But with genesis I do feel I am a bit lost. I found the custom_genesis_loop and used it.

So I did two queries for use on the front page only. Now I want to ask if it´s the right way that I used em.

There are the two queries I did:
$args = array(
'post_type' => array('portfolio'), // exclude posts from this category
'posts_per_page' => 12, // respect pagination
'paged' => $paged,
);

$blogargs =array(
'post_type' =>array('post'),
'posts_per_page' => 6,
'paged' => $paged
);

Then I call them with genesis_custom_loop($args/$blogargs) respecitvely. But this means that the same image size will be used in both loops. Is there any way to change the featured image used for each custom loop?

As always if this is way above the help of this forum then I am sorry for asking. No URL at this point so I can´t show you the code in action.

thanks for you help.

[Brad Dalton]

Try this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Multiple_Loops

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[Henrik Blomgren]

Thanks Brad!

So I just have to put wp_reset_postdata(); after each genesis_custom_loop();? Is that a good way of doing it with Genesis? Since it´s that I´m worried about. If genesis plays nicely with everything.

[Brad Dalton]

Try it and see how you go then report back.

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[Henrik Blomgren]

It seems to work. The posts are output and they work well as I want them to. But I don´t see any difference in output from when I did not have wp_reset_postdata(); after the loops. So I´m guessing it works.

Thanks for the help Brad. Hopefully I´ll work out the quirks soon and can show it all 🙂

[Henrik Blomgren]

Well. The new design is up and running over at http://henrikblomgren.net. Front page uses custom queries and from what I see in the outputted code it displays no errors so I guess it worked fine. Thanks once again for the help Brad!

[Brad Dalton]

Looks fine except for your after posts plugin

Notice: Undefined index: _block_id in /storage/content/10/126410/henrikblomgren.net/public_html/wp-content/plugins/ads-by-datafeedrcom/inc/dfads.class.php on line 205 Notice: Undefined index: _block_id in /storage/content/10/126410/henrikblomgren.net/public_html/wp-content/plugins/ads-by-datafeedrcom/inc/dfads.class.php on line 208

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[Henrik Blomgren]

I noticed that... made some changes to the plugin and replaced the shortcode used. So last time I checked it worked.

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