phyllisrae

That option was already checked.

The issue was that in some instances it (the checked option you described) was working–others, it wasn’t.

1) If I have the blog page actually assigned as my posts page in “customize”, it was working (removing posts from the loop).

2) BUT then the slider would appear on BOTH the home page AND the posts page (which I did not want).

3) Then, if I removed the “posts page” assignment to my blog page and just used a blog layout instead, the sticky posts would return whether the option was checked or not..however, this got rid of the slider on that page. So my problem was that I could either have a blog page with portfolio posts (did not want) OR a slider on my blog page with no portfolio posts in the loop, and only one blog layout option (also did not want).

What I wanted was to have:

-the blog page
-have four columns
-no slider
-no portfolio posts in the loop
-still have a slider on my home page, which is NOT for posts/blog

It didn’t seem to be doing all of these at the same time as long as the slider was activated on my site.

The slider would show up in BOTH the home page AND the blog page at the same time, but only if I activated the blog page as my “posts page” in customize. If I did NOT do this, it would allow me to use the “blog” page any way I wanted, but wouldn’t get rid of the portfolio pages from the loop.

I ended up un-checking the slider option, and the issue seemed to resolve itself automatically even though the posts were still sticky.

I have no idea why and I’m not sure I even care anymore. A lot of the problems I am having pertain to the slider and related settings so I think I’m just going to remove it for now and focus on other aspects of the site.

I added that afterward I think, but I’ll try it again. Maybe I have to reinstall the theme? Hmm….

…Nope. That was only applied to one quote, and all of the quotes do it, including the one that I uploaded from Tumblr. Maybe it’s just a glitch, then..I can’t think of any other reason why it would happen.

If I uninstall and reinstall the theme, though..I need to back up what I currently have first, right? Do you think this would help perhaps get rid of the issue, whatever it is?

Yeah..it’s displaying extra characters I didn’t enter. I just typed a standard quote, with regular characters, like, example: “Hello, I’m a person. – Me” and when it shows up on the list of blog posts, a bunch of extra superfluous characters are added that don’t belong there.

If you click on that post, the weird characters aren’t there anymore. It’s just in the preview of the quotes, and it’s only when I have a quote post. It doesn’t show up on regular posts as far as I know.

My most recent quote shows up like this:

“Test­ing my quotes
–Me”

Even though I didn’t put any of those special characters there. It’s supposed to just say, “Testing my quotes – Me” and I posted it there that way because one of my earlier quotes from Tumblr was doing the same thing. I thought maybe it was an error on Tumblr’s part from the transfer, but it isn’t.

Yeah, I have a construction page up for the main site…I have a menu bar up that leads to the blog page. That’s where the issue is occurring, not on the main page.