First let me say that I have been working on this issue for about 2 weeks and I have looked all over the place for an answer. Ive gone to various forums, blogs, the WordPress Codex and just about any and all places I could find. I still cannot get this to work properly. As a last resort I am coming here to see if maybe someone can assist me with it.
My issue is this. I am building a free Wordpress theme, http://wp-awesome.themeawesome.com. I will be submitting it to the WordPress Theme Repository and hopefully get it hosted so people can download it. One of the requirements is that a theme cannot generate any errors. Everything is working perfectly and there are no errors except one. I get the following error message when I go to a second page:
*Notice: Undefined variable: do_not_duplicate in /--/--/--/--/--/--/wp-awesome/index.php on line 68*
As you can see on the front page there is a featured post slider. This slider is will display posts that are tagged "featured". I am using the following code for this specific query:
<?php
$mytag = mytheme_option( 'featured_tag' );
$thecount = mytheme_option( 'featured_count' );
$my_query = new WP_Query("tag=$mytag&showposts=$thecount");
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID;
?>
// post stuff here
<?php endwhile; ?>
Now obviously on the home page I do not want the posts that are displaying in the slider to display on the front page in the regular loop below it. So i found the following code that seems to work great:
<?php
if (is_home()) {
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts(array(
'post__not_in' => $do_not_duplicate,
'paged' => $paged
)); }
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
// post stuff
<?php endwhile; ?>
the only problem is when you click on another page at the bottom the error shows up:
*Notice: Undefined variable: do_not_duplicate in /--/--/--/--/--/--/wp-awesome/index.php on line 68*
I know the error is appearing because when you go to a second or third page, there is nothing defining the do_not_duplicate param. Any ideas how to fix this?
Any help is greatly appreciated and I thank you in advance.