Title: Duplicate Posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Duplicate Posts

 *  [Chris H](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris-h/)
 * (@chris-h)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-9/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I’m working through a number of issues that have cropped up on one of my clients
   sites since upgrading to WordPress 3.1.2. The latest one I’ve spotted is giving
   me some serious grief.
 * [http://www.harmonyreins.com.au](http://www.harmonyreins.com.au)
 * The website is for an animal shelter, and each “post” corresponds to a different
   animal. Since upgrading, the posts appear to repeat across the two pages. In 
   other words, if you click on ‘Meet The Gang’ in the top navigation, you’ll see
   the latest 10 posts. Scroll to the bottom of that page and click on page two,
   and although the URL changes, you’re still seeing the same animals repeated. 
   There should be another page of different animals appearing on page 2.
 * Any thoughts?
 * Cheers,
 * Chris

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-9/#post-2064218)
 * Do the templates use custom queries?
 *  Thread Starter [Chris H](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris-h/)
 * (@chris-h)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-9/#post-2064612)
 * This is my code for the ‘Meet The Gang’ area.
 *     ```
       <div id="main-column">
   
       <?php query_posts('cat=-10,-12'); ?>
   
       	<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while  ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>		
   
       			<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
   
       				<div class="post-thumbnail">
       					<?php the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail'); ?>
       				</div>
   
       				<div class="post-content">
       				<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
   
       				<?php the_excerpt(''); ?>
   
       				<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">Read more about <?php the_title(); ?></a>
   
       				</div>
   
       			</div>
   
       		<?php endwhile; ?>
   
       	<?php else : ?>
   
       		<h2>Not Found</h2>
       		<p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
       		<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>
   
       	<?php endif; ?>
   
       <?php if(function_exists('wp_page_numbers')) : wp_page_numbers(); endif; ?>
   
       </div> <!-- closes "main-column" -->
       ```
   
 * Cheers,
 * Chris
 *  Thread Starter [Chris H](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris-h/)
 * (@chris-h)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-9/#post-2064641)
 * I’m giving this a quick bump, as I probably posted at the wrong time of day yesterday(
   I’m in Australia. I expect my post was long buried by the time most of you guys
   were awake). 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Chris H](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris-h/)
 * (@chris-h)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-9/#post-2064676)
 * Sorry to keep bringing this up guys, but I’m really stuck. Anyone have any thoughts
   as to what the issue could be?
 *  [datdesignguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/datdesignguy/)
 * (@datdesignguy)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-9/#post-2064678)
 * I don’t see anything wrong with your code at first glance. Is this being used
   with a custom post type in a post-type-specific template?
 * If so, you can try visiting the permalinks page in your admin, clicking save/
   update (you don’t need to make any changes) this forces wordpress to look for
   newly created templates for custom post types and rebuild rewrite and template
   rules. It seems to me like wordpress might not be using the template you want
   it to.
 * That’s just a guess, though. Good luck! I’ll be watching this thread to see how
   this turns out.
 * – Greg
 *  [datdesignguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/datdesignguy/)
 * (@datdesignguy)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-9/#post-2064679)
 * The plugin you’re using WP Page Numbers hasn’t been updated since 2009 and has
   only been verified to work up to version WP 2.8.
 * I would recommend de-activating this plugin in favor of standard pagination or
   WP Page Navi…
 * Other users have reported similar problems with this plugin (unfortunately with
   no solution)…
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_page_numbers-plugin-did-not-work?replies=1](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_page_numbers-plugin-did-not-work?replies=1)
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-9/#post-2064680)
 * try changing this section:
 *     ```
       <?php query_posts('cat=-10,-12'); ?>
       ```
   
 * to:
 *     ```
       <?php global $query_string;
       query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-10,-12'); ?>
       ```
   
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts#Usage_Note](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts#Usage_Note)
 *  Thread Starter [Chris H](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris-h/)
 * (@chris-h)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-9/#post-2064681)
 * Thanks for your help gents.
 * I’ve changed the page numbers plugin and this has had no impact. I adjusted the
   code as per alchymyth’s suggestions, and this has fixed the problem, but brought
   an issue I had last week – categories 10 & 12 need to be excluded from the ‘Meet
   The Gang’ section of the site, and only appear in their specific category lists.
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-categories-malfunctioning?replies=5](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-categories-malfunctioning?replies=5)
 * All of these issues have started since upgrading to WP 3.1.2. 🙁
 * Cheers,
 * Chris
 *  Thread Starter [Chris H](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris-h/)
 * (@chris-h)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-9/#post-2064694)
 * Anyone have any further thoughts on this?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 9 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Chris H](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris-h/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-9/#post-2064694)
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