<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Ditto Ronnel. If you read the theme unit data it actually says in the sticky post that is supposed to show up twice. Once at the top of the page with sticky formatting and the other where it would be post wise without the formatting.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Feb 27, 2014, at 10:05 PM, Ronnel Angelo <<a href="mailto:ronnel.angelo@gmail.com">ronnel.angelo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">The duplication is normal. A sticky post is supposed to show up twice.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Phillip Wells <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phillipwells@hotmail.co.nz" target="_blank">phillipwells@hotmail.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><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 style="white-space:pre-wrap">          </span><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?></div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                          </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')) ?>&nbsp;|&nbsp;Posted by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<?php the_tags(__('Tags:', 'platinum') . ' ', ', ', '<br />'); ?>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<?php comments_popup_link(__('No comments', 'platinum'), __('1 comment', 'platinum'), __('% comments', 'platinum'), '', __('comments Closed', 'platinum') ); ?></div></div>
<div>                    </div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                                        </span> </div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                                   </span> <?php /* The post thumbnail */</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                               </span>if ( has_post_thumbnail( get_the_ID() ) ) { ?></div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                          </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 style="white-space:pre-wrap">                                          </span><?php the_post_thumbnail( apply_filters( 'platinum_excerpt_thumbnail_size', 'thumbnail' ) ); ?></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                                    </span></a></div></div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                                  </span><?php</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                         </span>} else {</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                                 </span>echo platinum_get_post_image( get_the_ID(), apply_filters( 'platinum_excerpt_thumbnail_size', 'thumbnail' ), 'excerpt' );<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">       </span></div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                          </span>}</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                                </span>?></div><div>                    </div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                                  </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 style="white-space:pre-wrap">                          </span></div></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                             </span><?php endwhile; ?></div>
<div><div class="post"></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">         </span><div class="navigation"></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                 </span><div class="alignleft" style="float:left;"><?php next_posts_link(__('&laquo; Older Entries', 'platinum')) ?></div></div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                  </span><div class="alignright" style="float:right;"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer Entries &raquo;', 'platinum')) ?></div></div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">          </span></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">    </span><?php else : ?></div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">           </span><h2 class="center"><?php _e('Not Found', 'platinum'); ?></h2></div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">          </span><p class="center"><?php _e('Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn&#8217;t here.', 'platinum'); ?></p></div><div>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">             </span><?php get_search_form(); ?></div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">       </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>
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