How to prevent from duplicate post on home page

[uttam]

I am using genesis framework as my theme as well. I created slider and now same post is showing on post list as well as on slider. I do not want duplicate post. If post is on slider then post should not showing on home page.

can someone help.

Thanks

[Porter]

Your slider is very likely an independent object from "the loop", which is what's showing posts on your home page. Given that, don't assume one knows about the other, therefore they have no way of naturally deciding they don't overlap.

Consider creating a tag or category named "featured" that simply lets you decide which content is featured, then set the slider to only show those. When content is no longer needed on the slider, remove the category or tag label. This does create minor SEO issues, as you'd technically be placing this content in a category archive or tag archive, then removing it, so consider that.

An alternative would be to rewrite the loop so that it starts at the index of (0 + sliderContent), that way if you have 4 pieces on your slider, the loop starts at the 5th piece.

You could also look into Advanced Custom Fields (amazing plugin), and assigning a "Featured" custom field to content you want to show up on the slider. This would be much like the category or tag concept, without the negative SEO.

All of this assumes the theme doesn't have methods in place to accomplish what you're trying, is purely from a logical standpoint (I don't know the theme).

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