I would like to “highlight” a featured post above all other posts with a special indicator. Is there a feature in WordPress that will do this or do I need to install a third party plug-in? I am using a custom WordPress install (not WP hosted). 1 Answer 1 Use the “sticky” feature. In the … Read more
I need to maintain pagination for use with infinite scroll. Is there no way to tell query_posts to retrieve sticky posts first? It seems to be default behaviour on a standard wordpress blog on the home page, but becomes a bit awkward on a custom template for a page from what I can tell. Thank … Read more
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Trying to get a custom admin link working for a custom post type. I’ve managed to add a link to show all “sticky” posts next to the usual “All”, “Published”, “Trash”, etc., but the actual query isn’t working as I’d like it to. In pre_get_posts, I’m trying to modify the query to do the following: … Read more
EDIT: It is currently working when I set a sticky post and set it’s date at 07/07/2016. My code so far: I’ve added this to change the post date of the post when it become sticky : // Update post timestamp $newdate = current_time(‘mysql’); $my_post = array( ‘ID’ => $post_id, ‘post_date’ => $newdate ); wp_update_post($my_post); … Read more
I’d like to be able to show sticky posts at the top of category pages. I’m using archive.php for my category page. I’m using the code below to display sticky posts at the top of my category archive page followed by the rest of the posts within that category. This works fine, until there are … Read more
I am having alot of trouble with this. I was using <?php query_posts( array( ‘post__not_in’ => get_option( ‘sticky_posts’ ), ‘paged’ => get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) ) ); ?> to exclude the posts from the main query on the my homepage because stickies are being used in the slider. I am making this theme for wordpress.org and … Read more
I’ve been using the following query to try to output only posts that are marked as stickies: <?php $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 2, ‘post__in’ => get_option(‘sticky_posts’) ); ?> <?php query_posts($args); ?> <?php if(have_posts()) : ?> <?php get_template_part(‘loop’, ‘feed-top-stories’ ); ?> <?php endif; ?> <?php wp_reset_query(); ?> I currently have no posts … Read more
I’ve got a custom WP_Query loop based of meta_value variables: $meta_cat = get_sub_field(‘category’); $posts = new WP_Query( array( ‘cat’ => $meta_cat, ‘posts_per_page’ => get_sub_field(‘recent_ppp’), ) ); But somehow when I’ll make a post sticky it isn’t shown as the first item in the while loop. I know ignore_sticky_posts is default set to false so I … Read more
How is it possible to upgrade a post to make it sticky directly from code, not by admin area? Is it possible through a code like: update_post_meta($post_id, $meta_key, $meta_value, $prev_value); In this case, the $post_id is known, but the $meta_key? Thank you in advance for your answers 1 1 The sticky posts are saved as … Read more
