WP_Query - Adding “offset” posts to the end of the loop

Question

I'm trying to create two queries.

In the first query, I will, for example, display 6 posts, in a given order.

In the second query, I want to display the same 6 posts, but "offset" the first 3 and then have those same 3 appear at the end.

For example, Query #1 would return:

1 2 3 4 5 6

Then, Query #2 would return:

4 5 6 1 2 3

Any ideas on how I might pull this off??

Answer 1

No need to have two queries, you can just reuse the same post data by resetting the current post position and running the loop again: $wp_query->current_post = 2;

you'd have to do this twice to achieve what you're asking, and stop it the second time at the third post.