Title: Exclude Sticky Posts from a Template Loop
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Exclude Sticky Posts from a Template Loop

 *  [Takeyo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takeyo/)
 * (@takeyo)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-sticky-posts-from-a-template-loop/)
 * I need to exclude sticky posts from this loop which comes with a template. I 
   don’t know PHP and the support from the template maker doesn’t respond to my 
   mails. Can somebody please help me to exclude the sticky posts from this loop:
 *     ```
       <?php /*
       Template Name: Blog Template ( Posts Page)
       */ ?>
   
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
       		<section id="container" class="<?php echo nirvana_get_layout_class(); ?>">
       			<div id="content" role="main">
       			<?php cryout_before_content_hook(); ?>
   
       	<?php
   
       $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
   
       $the_query = new WP_Query('post_status=publish&orderby=date&order=desc&posts_per_page='.get_option('posts_per_page').'&paged=' . $paged);?>
   
       		<?php  if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : 
   
       				 /* Start the Loop */
       				 while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();
       					 global $more; $more=0;
       					 get_template_part( 'content/content', get_post_format() ); 
   
       				 endwhile; 
   
       				if($nirvana_pagination=="Enable") nirvana_pagination($the_query->max_num_pages); else nirvana_content_nav( 'nav-below' );
   
       			 else : ?>
   
       				<article id="post-0" class="post no-results not-found">
       					<header class="entry-header">
       						<h1 class="entry-title"><?php _e( 'Nothing Found', 'nirvana' ); ?></h1>
       					</header><!-- .entry-header -->
   
       					<div class="entry-content">
       						<p><?php _e( 'Apologies, but no results were found for the requested archive. Perhaps searching will help find a related post.', 'nirvana' ); ?></p>
       						<?php get_search_form(); ?>
       					</div><!-- .entry-content -->
       				</article><!-- #post-0 -->
   
       			<?php endif; ?>
   
       			<?php cryout_after_content_hook(); ?>
       			</div><!-- #content -->
       	<?php nirvana_get_sidebar(); ?>
       		</section><!-- #container -->
   
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * Thank you guys.

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 * [loop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/loop/)
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 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-sticky-posts-from-a-template-loop/)
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