Exclude sticky posts from query

Question

I used orderby=date and orderby=comment_count to show my recent post and popular post, but sticky post is always there on the top.

How can exclude sticky posts?

Answer 1

You should also use ignore_sticky_posts=1 (it's default value is 0, so sticky posts aren't ignored and returned at top of posts list).

More on pagination parameters: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Pagination_Parameters