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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi i am developing my own theme and i have ran into an issue i am confused with where my sticky posts appear as the first outputted posts and they appear again about halfway through where they would be placed if they were not sticky posts. I am not sure how to get rid of this duplication. <div><br></div><div>The code i am using is below:</div><div><br></div><div><div><?php if (have_posts()) : ?></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><div <?php post_class(); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"></div><div> <h2 class="post_heading"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php printf(__('Permanent Link to %s', 'platinum'), the_title_attribute('echo=0')); ?>"><?php if(the_title( '', '', false ) !='') the_title(); else echo 'Untitled';?></a></h2></div><div> <div class="meta">Posted in <?php printf(__('in %s', 'platinum'), get_the_category_list(', ')); ?> | Date: <?php the_time(__('F jS, Y', 'platinum')) ?> | Posted by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> | <?php the_tags(__('Tags:', 'platinum') . ' ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> | <?php comments_popup_link(__('No comments', 'platinum'), __('1 comment', 'platinum'), __('% comments', 'platinum'), '', __('comments Closed', 'platinum') ); ?></div></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <?php /* The post thumbnail */</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>if ( has_post_thumbnail( get_the_ID() ) ) { ?></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><div class="image_frame image_fl"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'graphene' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><?php the_post_thumbnail( apply_filters( 'platinum_excerpt_thumbnail_size', 'thumbnail' ) ); ?></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></a></div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><?php</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>} else {</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>echo platinum_get_post_image( get_the_ID(), apply_filters( 'platinum_excerpt_thumbnail_size', 'thumbnail' ), 'excerpt' );<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>}</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>?></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><?php the_content(__('<span class="more float_r"></span>', 'platinum')); ?><br /><p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags(__('Tags:', 'platinum') . ' ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit this post', 'platinum'), '', ''); ?></p></div><div> </div><div> <div class="cleaner"></div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><?php endwhile; ?></div><div><div class="post"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><div class="navigation"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><div class="alignleft" style="float:left;"><?php next_posts_link(__('« Older Entries', 'platinum')) ?></div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><div class="alignright" style="float:right;"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer Entries »', 'platinum')) ?></div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><?php else : ?></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><h2 class="center"><?php _e('Not Found', 'platinum'); ?></h2></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><p class="center"><?php _e('Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.', 'platinum'); ?></p></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><?php get_search_form(); ?></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><?php endif; ?></div></div><div><br></div><div>I have been searching everywhere for an answer but i cannot find one. I have even tried searching the twenty fourteen theme and i cannot see what i am doing wrong.</div> </div></body>
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