Let’s say you wanna prepend the word “Special: ” to every stick post’s title you can place the following in your functions.php: add_filter( ‘the_title’, ‘sticky_title’ ); function sticky_title( $title ) { // Check if a post is set to sticky. if ( is_sticky() ) { // Prepend “Special: ” to post title. return ‘Special: ‘ … Read more
Further upgrade: just built a class to place in functions.php or maybe in a plugin. I did that mainly because I want almost always have sticky posts, probably in more loops per page. So got a lot of duplication. Therefore here is a basic class, that certainly can be exapanded/perfectioned some way, but for my … Read more
Use is_sticky( $post_id ) to test if a post is a sticky post: if ( is_sticky() ) echo ‘I am sticky!’; if ( is_sticky( 123 ) ) echo ‘The post with the ID 123 is sticky!’;
The post parent can be accessed by $post->post_parent. The ID of the post parent is retrieved, so can try something like this $parent_ID = $post->post_parent; if( is_sticky( $parent_ID ) ) { // DO SOMETHING IF POST PARENT IS STICKY }
The issue is that you are using the function query_posts this only queries the default result on that page. It’s advised that you use wp_query instead, it just eliminates the margin for error or unexpected results. You can create a new query like below, and specify explicitly how many posts to return: <?php $sticky = … Read more
You shouldn’t really need to “exclude” anything. Just make use of the built in loop tracking. WP_Query will “remember” where you left off. For example: if (have_posts()) { while (have_posts()) { the_post(); echo ‘firstpost##’; the_content(); echo ‘##endfirstpost’; break; } } // do some other stuff if (have_posts()) { while (have_posts()) { the_post(); echo ‘otherposts##’; the_content(); … Read more
You can use a simple script which you run once and remove. The idea is to replace the sticky post array with an array of the 4 desired ID’s PHP 5.4+ version – short array syntax add_action( ‘init’, function () { // Define our new array $stickies = [1,2,3,4]; // Change to match your own … Read more
You simply need the is_sticky() conditional check and then act on that. You would probably still need the is_home() and !is_paged() conditional check to only target stikies on the first page of the home page if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); if ( is_sticky() && is_home() && !is_paged() ) { … Read more
Just set ‘post__in’ to a null array. add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, function( \WP_Query $q ) { if( ! is_admin() && $q->is_category() && $q->is_main_query() ) { $sticky_posts = get_option( ‘sticky_posts’ ); //If there are sticky posts if( ! empty( $sticky_posts ) ) { $q->set( ‘post__in’, (array) $sticky_posts ); } //If not else { $q->set( ‘post__in’, array(0) ); } … Read more
The problem is that you misuse the category field. Use a site meta field (array) and a simple checkbox on each post. When a post is saved add its ID to the site meta array, and if the array is longer than 5 drop the last ID from it. The query for featured post will … Read more