I need to display max 5 latest sticky posts that have a thumbnail. And I need to have accurate counting of the displayed posts. I’ve tried to exclude sticky posts without a thumbnail with meta_query, but with no luck. $sticky = get_option(‘sticky_posts’); if (empty($sticky)) { return; } $counter = 1; $r = new WP_Query(array( ‘posts_per_page’ … Read more
This link solves the problem but it’s only for the main query. What if you are using a custom query? How can you modify the answer below: add_action(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘ad_custom_query’); function ad_custom_query($query) { if ($query->is_main_query() && is_home()) { //how can we for specific custom query? // set the number of posts per page $posts_per_page = 12; … Read more
I use the following code to exclude expired posts and it works fine but it doesn’t exclude expired sticky posts. //* Exclude expired posts add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_expired_posts’ ); function exclude_expired_posts( $query ) { if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() && !is_search() && !is_singular() && !is_date() ) { $meta_query = array ( ‘relation’ => ‘OR’, array( ‘key’ … Read more
I’ve been reading this by @nacin and getting to grips with wp_query over query_posts that I used to use. What I want is: to put this in a template file to query all posts of this category, in this case ‘3’ to display, if available, the first result on the page the latest sticky post … Read more
I’m using my index.php to display post archive pages rather than a specific archive.php file. This works fine, however sticky posts do not stick to the top of it. They do however, stick to the top of the posts page. Are sticky posts not supposed to stick to the top of archive pages? Here is … Read more
I would like 7 posts showing on my homepage. I would like to be able to manually choose those posts by stickying them. Currently, I have my posts per page set to ‘7’ in WP Admin. However, this does not include sticky posts as I now am having 7 sticky posts + 7 newest published … Read more
I need to have the ability to have Sticky posts for each category. The simplest way to do this appeared to be to just create two loops on the page. This is what I wrote: <?php //Custom “sticky” loop $sticky_posts = new WP_Query(array( ‘post__in’ => get_option(‘sticky_posts’) )); if ($sticky_posts->have_posts()) : while ($sticky_posts->have_posts()) : $sticky_posts->the_post(); get_template_part(‘post-formats/content’, … Read more
I’m using the default Loop Code. I’ve set the ‘Blog pages show at most’ option in Settings > Reading to 11. In my home page -set to show Latest Posts- whenever I mark a post as ‘Sticky’ it’s being added to the original ‘Blog pages show at most’ count, so the home page now shows … Read more
I’m using the following bit of code to highlight sticky posts: <?php if (is_sticky()) : ?> <div class=”col-md-12 box-01″> <div class=”content”> <?php endif; ?> The only thing is, I only want to highlight the stickies that show at the top of the page… not when they’re repeated further down the list of posts. For example, … Read more
I need to create a custom WordPress admin interface for a client. I want to completely disable the sticky post feature from admin area. I found some posts on the internet that suggest to hide the checkbox using css, but I would really like to disable that feature both from edit and from quick edit … Read more
