Problems excluding a custom post-type from the loop

Morning all,

I’m having some issues with excluding my custom post-type ‘events’ from my index.php loop for my Blog page.

I simply want to display the posts from my actual Blog, which I assume come under the post-type ‘post’, but when I try to display the ‘post’ type it also shows my ‘events’ post-type.

Here’s my loop code:

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
            <div class="individualPost">
                <h1 class="bottomBorder"><a href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/30077/<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>

                 <ul class="blogMeta">
                     <li><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> by <?php the_author_posts_link() ?></li>
                     <li>Posted in <?php the_category(', '); ?></li>
                 </ul>
                 <?php if (has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID )): ?>
                    <?php $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), 'full' ); ?>
                    <a href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/30077/<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/thumbs.php?src=<?php echo $image[0]; ?>&w=615&h=200&zc=1" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>
                 <?php endif; ?>    
                 <!-- Display the Post's Content in a div box. -->
                   <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
            </div>
       <?php endwhile;?>
       <?php else : ?>

        <div <?php post_class(); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
            <h1>Not Found</h1>
        </div>

       <?php endif; ?>

I’ve also tried this, with no luck:

<?php $loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'posts_per_page' => 5 ) ); ?>
        <?php while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>
            <div class="individualPost">
                <h1 class="bottomBorder"><a href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/30077/<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>

                 <ul class="blogMeta">
                     <li><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> by <?php the_author_posts_link() ?></li>
                     <li>Posted in <?php the_category(', '); ?></li>
                 </ul>
                 <?php if (has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID )): ?>
                    <?php $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), 'full' ); ?>
                    <a href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/30077/<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/thumbs.php?src=<?php echo $image[0]; ?>&w=615&h=200&zc=1" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>
                 <?php endif; ?>    
                 <!-- Display the Post's Content in a div box. -->
                   <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
            </div>
       <?php endwhile;?>

Thanks

Try using the following before “if (have posts()..“

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'orderby'   => 'rand',
    'showposts' => '1'
);
query_posts( $args );