WordPress built in with many query method, our example below about query is the best way to create Multiple Loops.  I will show you how to  do multiple loops in wordpress. let us assume we want to have two lists of posts. One which would list the most recent posts (the standard 10 posts most recently added), and another which would contain only one post from the category ‘featured’. Posts in the ‘featured’ category should be shown first, followed by the second listing of posts (the standard).

Step 1. Get only one post from the ‘featured’ category.

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=featured&posts_per_page=1');
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
  $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>
    <!-- Your First Looping Code will be here -->
  <?php endwhile; ?>

This query is set $my_query equal to the result of querying all posts where the category is named featured and by the way, get me one post only. Also, set the variable $do_not_duplicate equal to the ID number of the single post returned. Recall that the Do stuff line represents all the formatting options associated for the post retrieved.

Note that we will need the value of $do_not_duplicate in the next step to ensure that the same post doesn’t appear in both lists.
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