This same exact question was asked earlier this week or over the weekend, and it had me thinking. Here is the idea that I came up with. If you look at the source code of the WP_Query class, you will see that sticky posts is only added to the first page of the home page. … Read more
Just add ‘post__in’ => get_option(‘sticky_posts’) to your query, to confine your query to only sticky posts. So, $getHighlights = array( ‘numberposts’ => 7, ‘post_type’ => array(‘post’,’Event’), ‘post__in’ => get_option(‘sticky_posts’), ‘category_name’ => ‘Highlights’ ); should work for you. Edit: This is how you can merge two arrays to get the sticky posts at the top of … Read more
It sounds like the simplest and most flexible approach is to find a plugin that creates a widget for you that you can configure to display any post of your choosing in whatever fashion you prefer. Then you put that widget in the sidebar that appears on all of your pages. I would not develop … Read more
Something like this should work: $sticky = get_option( ‘sticky_posts’ ); if ( !empty( $sticky ) ) { // don’t show anything if there are no sticky posts $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, // show all sticky posts ‘post__in’ => $sticky, ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1 ); $query = new WP_Query( $args ); if ( $query->have_posts() ) … Read more
It doesn’t appear that there is any obvious way to enable “sticky post” support for Pages, e.g. via add_post_type_support(). However, Pages support both hierarchy and menu order. I would recommend using menu order to output Pages in your preferred order.
$GLOBALS[‘wp_query’]->found_posts will give you the number of posts. $GLOBALS[‘wp_query’]->posts is an array with all the posts found. So instead of while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); use: setup_postdata( $GLOBALS[‘wp_query’]->posts[0] ); get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘super’ ); This way you don’t run through all post, you really just use one. And please read When should you use WP_Query … Read more
If I’m understanding you correctly, you want to show only the most recent sticky post only on the front page. I had the same issue a month or two ago, and got some fantastic help from the community here at WordPress Answers. The solution is to run two loops in your index.php file. One to … Read more
Use the “sticky” feature. In the “Page Attributes” metabox (labelled as Publish), if you click the “edit” link next to the Visibility option, there is a checkbox which allows you to “Stick this post to the front page”. Unless a theme overrides the default query, that post will show up above all the others. In … Read more
Digging through the source code I couldn’t really find any weird logic that would cause ‘category__in’ to break the ordering of the results. If you do, you might as well file a bug in the WordPress Trac. It’s also hard to reproduce this sort of issue, because it might depend on another issue which is … Read more
Sticky Posts & Posts Per Page [closed]