Turns out this line of code I had right above the rest to exclude a specific category from the homepage loop is what caused the issue:
<?php if (is_home()) {
WP_Query("cat=-4")
;} ?>
Turns out this line of code I had right above the rest to exclude a specific category from the homepage loop is what caused the issue:
<?php if (is_home()) {
WP_Query("cat=-4")
;} ?>