Wordpress loop is confusing the shit out of me

[cpd]

I know there's got to be an easy solution I'm overlooking to this...

The Wordpress template I'm using has a "Featured" post at the top, and then another section for all the other posts that is ordered chronologically.

You get a post in the "Featured" section by assigning it to the category "Featured."

What I want to do is make the latest post show up in that category, and then all the others show up in the subsection. Should be simple, but I can't figure out how to make the subsection show everything BUT the latest post.

Any thoughts?

 

[radio]

set a variable outside of the loop to 1, have an if else condition in the loop that checks the variable, if one - post in "featured" section, if zero post in subsection. obviously decrement the variable in at least the if section. don't know how efficient that is, but it's what I would do.

 

[cpd]

Got it figured out, I just had to change "category=featured" to "showposts=1" in the featured section and it worked perfect. The second loop doesn't pick up the new post as it's already been taken by the first loop.