i work with restaurant plugin that use custom post type. the question is, if it possible to select some post and make him sticky (always be in the top) in the admin? i need this because when you add many items to the restaurant menu, it becomes hard to find the items(posts). so i just … Read more
The following snippet is from a sidebar widget that lists “recent posts”. Since its on the home page and I feature my lastest sticky post prominently on that page, I want to skip over the sticky in this loop. However, the post_not_in=sticky_posts has no effect. <?php $the_query = new WP_Query(“showposts=$number&offset=1&order=ASC&post_not_in=sticky_posts”); while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post(); $do_not_duplicate … Read more
I am using WP 3.0.3 and I would like to exclude sticky posts from my query: This doesn’t seem to work: <?php query_posts( ‘posts_per_page=9&cat=-1,-2&ignore_sticky_posts=1’ );?> To get JUST the sticky post I use the following: $sticky = get_option(‘sticky_posts’); $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 1, ‘post__in’ => $sticky ); query_posts($args); 3 Answers 3 ignore_sticky_posts was introduced … Read more
I have a custom post type (CPT) called property. I have registered a featured property metaboxfor it as explained in this question “How do I create a featured post within a custom post type?”. So a featured property has got meta_key=’property_featured’ and meta_value=on. What I would like to do is to display all property posts, … Read more
I am writing custom ajax pagination for a Blog archive page and I am running into an issue with sticky posts. The default functionality of sticky posts when using a WP_Query call is to sort all sticky posts at the top, unless explicitly stated otherwise. My AJAX is functioning correctly with no errors and displays … Read more
I’d like to display the most two recent published sticky posts by modifying the primary loop. A simple affair with the following loop. However, if I schedule a sticky post to be published in the future, the loop fails – only displaying one sticky post. It’s like it can see that there is a new … Read more
Background: The WordPress Answers site has two questions which ask about how to enable sticky posts on custom post types (see how to make custom posts sticky? and Enable sticky posts to custom post_type ). Both questions made mention of this trac ticket ( https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12702 ). The answers provided ( to those questions I mentioned … Read more
All is in the title. Does someone know a way to do that ? Thanks ! 1 Answer 1 Though may not be intuitive, one needs the capability edit_others_posts to make posts sticky. If you don’t want a user to have that ability just remove the edit_others_posts capability from the user.
I have a small problem with this function ! I would like to exclude all sticky post from my query but when I do it, it breaks my pagination. In the following code, when I remove the “‘post__not_in’ => $sticky” my pagination works like a charm… Any advice would be much appreciated ! Cheers. /* … Read more
In WordPress, Custom Post Types do not have Sticky functionality as a core feature. It is possible, I’m sure, to create it in certain cases—and I’m working on a project that requires it for archive-{customposttype}.php templates. I have downloaded and installed a plugin, called Sticky Custom Post Types, which I read in this article could … Read more
