title: WordPress: Loop Multiple Categories
body: <p>I have the following issue, I have two loops on my homepage. 1 loop with two categories and one loop with two tags, but its not working. See my code below:</p>
  
  <p><strong>Loop 1</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>query_posts(array( 
  'post_type' =&gt; 'post', 
  'cat' =&gt; 12, 15, 
  'posts_per_page' =&gt; 8)); 
  if(have_posts()) : $count = count($r); ?&gt;
  
  &lt;!--POST STUFF HERE--&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Loop 2</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>query_posts(array( 
  'post_type' =&gt; 'post', 
  'terms' =&gt; 'news', 'articles', 
  'posts_per_page' =&gt; 8)); 
  if(have_posts()) : $count = count($r); ?&gt;
  
  &lt;!--POST STUFF HERE--&gt;
  </code></pre>