@Chris_O is right… currently sticky posts are not supported in custom post types so it must have something to do with the theme you are using. Now disregarding the CPT problem… and assuming that it does work the same way wordpress stickies do then the goal that you are describing is exactly the way ‘sticky’ … Read more
Have you considered using the RSS feed to import posts? Another possible solution might be to use the export feature, the output is an xml file though not js. I found a program that will import the WordPress Exported file (which allows you to choose certain posts, all post, or posts between a certain date, … Read more
How about doing remove_filter( ‘posts_orderby’, ‘rs_weighted_orderby’ );? If that doesn’t work, you could apply your own filters with higher priorities…but that’s sorta hackey, and I would avoid it if possible.
You have a couple of options here, but first let me advise you away from querying the database directly. If your sites are that closely related, then they should be in a Multisite network … RSS On Site B, fetch the RSS of Site A and display the posts and author attributions there. You can … Read more
Use this code instead for query post. Parameter ‘paged’ is which that keep track of the pagination so you have to pass it on query posts. $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1; $args = array( ‘cat’ => 0, ‘paged’ => $paged ); query_posts($args); Also try to avoid query_posts() unless its absolutely necessary. Use get_posts().
You can run a foreach loop through all your categories then run a query for the latest posts in each category. You can do this by setting your home page to a static page then put this in a custom template. This is just a basic example: $categories = get_the_categories(); foreach ( $categories as $cat … Read more
You can alter the posts query by using the pre_get_posts filter, and passing the parameter category__in. In order to do that, put the following code in your theme’s functions.php: add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘get_parent_category_posts’ ); function get_parent_category_posts($query){ if (is_category() && is_main_query()){ $curr_cat = get_query_var(‘cat’); $query->set(‘category__in’, array($curr_cat)); } }
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