EDIT Here is another approach to the one in my ORIGINAL ANSWER. Instead of the need to alter the main query and $posts global to remove expired stickies, why not remove the posts entirely from being sticky, ie, unstick the posts which has expired. This way, we do not need to check for expired stickies … Read more
To make this more complete, here is what I have said in comments in reply to the question on hand Just to quickly explain, WP_Query fails catastrophically in some cases where empty arrays are passed to some of its parameters, instead of also returning an empty array as we should expect, WP_Query returns all posts. As for getting the correct stickies, … Read more
I think the problem is that you have some posts already set as sticky and you don’t want to have to go back through and resave them. That being the case you just need to the remove the post IDs from the “sticky” option. function unset_sticky_for_category($cat) { $sticky = get_option( ‘sticky_posts’ ); $sp = new … Read more
Use the below code in the mainpage template to show the sticky posts. <?php $args = array( ‘cat’ => 42, ‘posts_per_page’ => 10, ‘post__in’ => get_option( ‘sticky_posts’ ), ); // The Query $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); // The Loop while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) { $the_query->the_post(); echo ‘<li>’ . get_the_title() . ‘</li>’; } The … Read more
there was a big talk about that : http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12702 They ended deciding that a custom field will have to be used…
This did it: $products = get_posts(array(‘post_type’ => ‘products’)); $numbers = range(0, 8); shuffle($numbers); $x = 0; foreach($products as $post) : setup_postdata($post); $product = new WP_Query(array(‘p’=>$post->ID,’post_type’=>’products’)); if (!empty($product->posts)) array_splice($posts,$numbers[$x],0,$product->posts); $x++; endforeach; foreach($posts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); …
This is default behavior when the post__in parameter is used. If you read the docs, you will see that you should set ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1 to eliminate sticky posts being queried EDIT Your query arguments should look like this $recommended_args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 3, ‘post__in’ => get_option(‘sticky_posts’), ‘orderby’ => ‘date’, ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ … Read more
By default, sticky posts only stick to the top of the first page of the main blog posts index. The easiest way to show sticky posts in other contexts is probably via a custom loop, e.g.: $sticky_posts = new WP_Query( array( ‘post__in’ => get_option( ‘sticky_posts’ ) ) ); if ( $sticky_posts->have_posts() ) : while ( … Read more
You can use a custom loop to get all stick post and then return all normal post. You may have to modify this code a bit but here is how you can return all sticky post. You can play with the second custom loop for the individual pages and return just the one post. //is … Read more
You rather need a save_post hook. Check following code it marks the post sticky for the specified if it is not already. add_action( ‘save_post’, ‘mark_post_sticky’ ); function mark_post_sticky( $post_id ) { if ( !wp_is_post_revision( $post_id ) && !isset($_POST[‘sticky’]) && in_category(‘bestcategoryever’,$post_id) ) { $_POST[‘sticky’] = ‘sticky’; } }