Exclude posts shown in slideshow from latest entries broken (WPShower Sight)

https://www.josiahemsley.com/wordpress/

Hi,

I use a theme from WPshower called Sight; they have a small forum, but for some reason would not let me post.

A default setting was that any post that was shown in the slideshow, would be excluded from the ‘latest entries’ list of posts on the front page.

I changed this so that they would be shown in both, by removing this from lines 15-16 in the slidehsow.php file:

global $exl_posts;
$exl_posts[] = $post->ID;

– I now realise it is annoying to have the posts doubled on the page and would like to revert back to the default of excluding the slideshow posts. I thought this would be as simple as adding the 2 lines of code, but now for some reason that does not work anymore. I even replaced the slideshow.php with an old, un-altered copy, which also did not work.

Can anyone please suggest any reason why this may not work anymore, or something i can do to fix the problem…?

thanks for the help.

J