Theme editor preview is correct, actually page is not.

Hey Folks,

I have been struggling with this issue for over a week now and I am unable to resolve it.

I have designed the homepage in a grid formation with the intent that each 6-post grid would be a different category of posts.

For some reason, the query loop blocks instead of pulling the newest posts by category it’s just pulling only the newest posts ignoring the categories and displaying the posts repeatedly on the homepage.

I have deactivated the plugins one-by-one thinking it might be a plugin conflict which resulted in no change and I am not using any cache plugin yet so I am baffled as to why the homepage will not load as designed in the theme editor preview.

Can someone help please?

Thanks, PC.

Screenshots and System Info follows

Theme Editor Image

Homepage

Category

### Begin System Info ###

AppPresser Version: 4.2.0
Multisite: No
SITE_URL: https://partycaribbean.com
HOME_URL: https://partycaribbean.com
WordPress Version: 5.9.3
Permalink Structure: /%postname%/
Registered Post Stati: publish, future, draft, pending, private, trash, auto-draft, inherit, request-pending, request-confirmed, request-failed, request-completed

THEMES
Active Theme: Twenty Twenty-Two 1.1
App 2 Theme: ap3-ion-theme
Ap3 Ion Theme: 2.0.1
Ap3 Ion Child Theme: Not found
Ap3 site slug: partycaribbeancom
ap3 app id: 7
Host: Unknown

PHP INFO
PHP Version: 7.4.28
Web Server Info: Apache
WordPress Memory Limit: 0.0390625MB
PHP Memory Limit: 512M
PHP Upload Max Size: 6000M
PHP Post Max Size: 6000M
PHP Upload Max Filesize: 6000M
PHP Time Limit: 300
PHP Max Input Vars: 1000
PHP Arg Separator: &

CURL INFO
Version: 7.64.0
SSL version: OpenSSL/1.1.1n
Supports OpenSSL: Yes

MISC
PHP Allow URL File Open: Yes
WP_DEBUG: Disabled
WP Table Prefix: Length: 4
Status: Acceptable
Show On Front: posts
Page On Front: Media | Music | News | Tickets | TV @ Party Caribbean (#54)
Page For Posts:  (#0)
WP Remote Post: wp_remote_post() works

Session: Disabled
Session Name: PHPSESSID
Cookie Path: /
Save Path: /opt/bitnami/php/var/run/session
Use Cookies: On
Use Only Cookies: On
DISPLAY ERRORS: N/A
FSOCKOPEN: Your server supports fsockopen.
cURL: Your server supports cURL.
SOAP Client: Your server has the SOAP Client enabled.
SUHOSIN: Your server does not have SUHOSIN installed.

ACTIVE PLUGINS
All In One WP Security: 4.4.12
AppPresser: 4.2.0
Classic Editor: 1.6.2
EWWW Image Optimizer: 6.5.1
FV Player: 7.5.22.728
FV Top Level Categories: 1.9.1
Gutenberg: 13.2.0
JWT Authentication for WP-API: 1.2.6
WP Offload Media Lite: 2.6.2
Yoast SEO: 18.8

HTACCESS
.htaccess: 
# BEGIN All In One WP Security
#AIOWPS_BASIC_HTACCESS_RULES_START
<Files .htaccess>
	<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
		Require all denied
	</IfModule>
	<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
		Order deny,allow
		Deny from all
	</IfModule>
</Files>
ServerSignature Off
LimitRequestBody 6442450944
<Files wp-config.php>
	<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
		Require all denied
	</IfModule>
	<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
		Order deny,allow
		Deny from all
	</IfModule>
</Files>
#AIOWPS_BASIC_HTACCESS_RULES_END
#AIOWPS_DEBUG_LOG_BLOCK_HTACCESS_RULES_START
<Files debug.log>
	<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
		Require all denied
	</IfModule>
	<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
		Order deny,allow
		Deny from all
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</Files>
#AIOWPS_DEBUG_LOG_BLOCK_HTACCESS_RULES_END
#AIOWPS_DENY_BAD_QUERY_STRINGS_START
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ftp:     [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} http:    [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} https:   [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(globals|encode|localhost|loopback).* [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\;|'|\"|%22).*(request|insert|union|declare|drop) [NC]
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L]
</IfModule>
#AIOWPS_DENY_BAD_QUERY_STRINGS_END
#AIOWPS_BLOCK_SPAMBOTS_START
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)?wp-comments-post\.php(.*)$
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://partycaribbean\.com [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
	RewriteRule .* https://127.0.0.1 [L]
</IfModule>
#AIOWPS_BLOCK_SPAMBOTS_END
#AIOWPS_LOGIN_WHITELIST_START
<FilesMatch "^(engage)">
	<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
		Order Allow,Deny
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		Allow from 34.231.218.22
		Allow from 167.99.185.20
		Allow from 213.205.200.0/24
		Allow from 213.205.200.10
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		Allow from 92.82.168.91
		Allow from ::1
	</IfModule>
	<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
		Require all denied
		Require local
		Require ip 127.0.0.1
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		Require ip 167.99.185.20
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		Require ip 213.205.200.10
		Require ip 213.205.240.207
		Require ip 82.12.128.0/24
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</FilesMatch>
#AIOWPS_LOGIN_WHITELIST_END
# END All In One WP Security

# BEGIN WordPress
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# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

# BEGIN EWWWIO
# The directives (lines) between "BEGIN EWWWIO" and "END EWWWIO" are
# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} image/webp
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (.*)\.(jpe?g|png|gif)$
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.webp -f
	RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !type=original
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</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
	<FilesMatch "\.(jpe?g|png|gif)$">
		Header append Vary Accept
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</IfModule>
AddType image/webp .webp
# END EWWWIO

### End System Info ###