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Hi All,

I am developing a site. There is slider on the home page populating recent 4 entries. On this page there is another section which is listing the channel entries of same channel as slider entries.

In the listing, i would like to exclude the entries which are populating into slider.

I know, it can easily done by offset parameter within channel tag.
But the channel is associated with 5 categories and slider is populating the entries without considering the category.
The listing is populating entries of a particular category.

Can we have any way to overcome this issue.

Thanks

You can do this using the Stash addon (https://github.com/croxton/Stash).

The basic idea will be that you create a Stash variable in your first EE tag, and then use that variable to exclude those entries by ID in the second entries tag.

Here is a rough idea with untested code:

Your slider code:

{exp:channel:entries 
 channel="whatevs"
 limit="4"
 }
 
 <!-- Create a list of entry IDs that you are using.  i.e. 1|2|3|4 -->
 {exp:stash:append name="entries_ids_to_exclude"}{if count != 1}|{/if}{entry_id}{/exp:stash:append}

 <!-- Your slider code -->

{/exp:channel:entries}

Your other listing:

{exp:channel:entries 
 channel="whatevs"
 entry_id="not {exp:stash:get name='entries_ids_to_exclude'}"
 }
 
 <!-- All the other entries you want to output excluding the ones above -->

{/exp:channel:entries}

As I write this, I am wondering if this will work.  You may need to include the second entries tag in an {embed} tag to pass the stash variable to it.  So, the second part may need to be an embed:

{embed="template/template_group" entries_to_exclude="{exp:stash:get name='entries_ids_to_exclude'}"}

And then the code in your embed template would be:

{exp:channel:entries 
 channel="whatevs"
 entry_id="not {embed:entries_to_exclude}"
 }
 
 <!-- All the other entries you want to output excluding the ones above -->

{/exp:channel:entries}

Hi Ben,

Thanks a lot.
It helped me to solve my problem.

Stash is nice add-on. I wasn’t aware about it.

Again many thanks.

Is there any other way to do this using stash, but not with an embed?

Stash is all about taking advantage of parse order. Embeds parse late so they’ve been one way to take advantage of Stash from the start - the natural concern is “aren’t embeds bad?” and generally yes, if you can avoid them, do so. But the beauty of Stash, when applied creatively, is that you should easily be able to do just about everything you need to do with only one embed - total. In my usage, which really just uses the “main” stash functions and doesn’t get too advanced, I’m able to have all my entries logic in one template, stashing all the “bits” and passing them to a single “wrapper” template that contains the layout for the entire inside page view.  There are some writeups being worked on lately - Adrienne Travis in particular with her first article on template partials using Stash that was published on eeinsider.com - that really provide some great insight into how this approach can work.  And Mark Croxton posted a really detailed breakdown of Stash lists on Twitter recently. I know there is some discussion about how Stash may be used without embeds altogether - so it’s coming quickly for sure.