display sticky post outside loop and exclude from loop
<p>I have a "featured" area in header.php that displays the content of the latest sticky post:</p>

<pre><code>$last_sticky_post = get_post(end(get_option('sticky_posts')));
if(!empty($last_sticky_post)):
setup_postdata($last_sticky_post);
the_content();
endif;
</code></pre>

<p>problem is that the same post now renders below it in the Loop - how can I suppress sticky posts from appearing at all in the loop?</p>
