[theme-reviewers] Sticky Posts appear twice in loop

[Chip Bennett]

...yet another reason why all of the TUTs are now only *recommended*. :)


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> It's much more intuitive for the sticky post(s) to appear in some sort of
> featured manner (usually at the top of the post list view) and then again
> in the common post list views; but I would not consider it required that
> sticky posts were displayed in their non-sticky order provided the theme
> author documents their intent ... and possibly some examples of how and why
> one would put this idea to use.
>
>
>
> Edward Caissie
> aka Cais.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Missy Oveson <missybunnie at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2014, at 10:05 PM, Ronnel Angelo <ronnel.angelo at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> The duplication is normal. A sticky post is supposed to show up twice.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Phillip Wells <
>> phillipwells at hotmail.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> The code i am using is below:
>>>
>>> <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
>>>
>>> <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
>>>  <div <?php post_class(); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
>>>                   <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 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>
>>>
>>>
>>>  <?php /* The post thumbnail */
>>> if ( has_post_thumbnail( get_the_ID() ) ) { ?>
>>>  <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' ) ); ?>">
>>>  <?php the_post_thumbnail( apply_filters(
>>> 'platinum_excerpt_thumbnail_size', 'thumbnail' ) ); ?>
>>> </a></div>
>>>  <?php
>>> } else {
>>> echo platinum_get_post_image( get_the_ID(), apply_filters(
>>> 'platinum_excerpt_thumbnail_size', 'thumbnail' ), 'excerpt' );
>>>  }
>>> ?>
>>>
>>> <?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 class="cleaner"></div>
>>> </div>
>>> <?php endwhile; ?>
>>> <div class="post">
>>> <div class="navigation">
>>> <div class="alignleft" style="float:left;"><?php
>>> next_posts_link(__('« Older Entries', 'platinum')) ?></div>
>>>  <div class="alignright" style="float:right;"><?php
>>> previous_posts_link(__('Newer Entries »', 'platinum')) ?></div>
>>>  </div>
>>>
>>> <?php else : ?>
>>>
>>> <h2 class="center"><?php _e('Not Found', 'platinum'); ?></h2>
>>>  <p class="center"><?php _e('Sorry, but you are looking for something
>>> that isn’t here.', 'platinum'); ?></p>
>>>  <?php get_search_form(); ?>
>>>
>>> <?php endif; ?>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
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