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Sticky Posts exceed posts per page limit

I'm using pre_get_posts to adjust the number of posts displayed on my homepage. function lifelounge_query_adjust( $query ) { if ( is_home() ) { set_query_var( 'posts_per_page', 12 ); ...
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How to add “Stick this post to the front page” to front end?

I have a baseball related website with multiple authors. I use the "Stick this post to the front page" to denote an "Editor's Pick" on an article. I would like to add a link/button to allow editor to ...
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Highlight a Featured Post?

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 ...
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Show Sticky Posts in Category Archive

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 ...
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Limiting query_posts to 1, regardless of sticky post?

As part of my homepage template, using the standard query_posts I'm pulling out 1 post (styled using a different content_part), then an ad, then the rest of the posts. This works fine, except for when ...
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Show all sticky posts, WITH pagination

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 ...
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Code to make a post sticky

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 ...
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Sticky Posts & Posts Per Page [closed]

I notice that sticky posts will disregard the posts_per_page param? Like I have a query like $q = new WP_Query(array( 'posts_per_page' => 4, ... )); If there are 3 sticky posts, I will get 6 ...
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How to make my front page display only the most recent sticky post, plus usual widgets?

WP 3.3.1, Suffusion 4.0.2 I am trying to figure out how to make my front page display only the most recent post marked sticky. I can't find how to do this in the documentation. What I'm trying to ...
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Wordpress 3.1 - How does one add sticky post capabilities to post types

In wordpress 3.1 they finally added the option of allowing posts belonging to a custom post type to be marked as "sticky"... what I can't figure out though is how to enable this so the admin menu ...
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Sticky post for each category on category pages

I think the title is self explanitory. I would like to show category.php a post I set as sticky post for that category. Do you know a good plugin or a code to do this? Thanks, Sarit
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Exclude Sticky posts from Main Query break Pagination

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' => ...
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Display all custom post type posts and order them by an optional meta_key

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 ...
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Using categories & “stickyness” together

I've got a custom query on my homepage showing all posts in a certain category. I need this query to respect sticky posts, but it seems from my research that category queries ignore stickyness. My ...
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ignore_sticky_posts in WordPress 3.0.3?

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 ...
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Exclude sticky post from main query?

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 ...
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wp_query for the first sticky, then display the rest of the posts excluding the first sticky

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 ...
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How to get 1 or 2 specific posts on top of my wordpress blog?

Does anyone know how to get 1 or 2 specific posts on top of my wordpress blog all the time? I mean just like in a forum where you can sticky a post so they are always on top of the other posts. Is ...
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Ensuring sticky posts are retrieved first (without using two queries)?

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 ...
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How to make “sticky” pages (and query by them)

I have query_posts() with page_type set as 'page'. Is there any way I can make certain pages appear higher and thus, make them sticky?
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Adding Sticky functionality to Custom Post Type Archives

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 ...
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Keep sticky posts out of query unless they have featured image

I have a query running which prevents posts without various criteria from appearing, one of these is the necessity to have a featured image. Sticky posts however seem to end up in the query ...
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Schedule Sticky Posts

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 ...
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Difficulty with PHP function that displays a post's format in WordPress

I am working on a WordPress theme using Bones. I would like to be able to show some text just above the title of each post if the post is either featured, password protected or private. So far I came ...
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Custom loops, sticky posts, and pagination nightmare

I've tried everything. I've looked at every. single. question. here, on StackOverflow, the WP help forum, googled 10 pages deep and literally tried EVERY combination of code I could find, for the ...
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How to automate featured posts number? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: featuring old articles without messing up with the archive Let's say you have a category called "featured". and you use that to feature posts. And the theme you have has ...
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Exclude all sticky posts front page twenty twelve

I am attempting to exclude all sticky posts from my front page in twenty twelve theme. I have attempted the following. I am making all changes to the child theme. To remove the following code from ...
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Exclude current sticky post

I have the following query, trying to fetch the latest sticky posts but exclude the current one: $sticky = get_option('sticky_posts'); rsort( $sticky ); $sticky = array_slice($sticky, 0, 3); ...
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1answer
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Why: sticky front page code, shows latest non-sticky on logged-in front page

I have this code to display only the latest sticky post on the front page. the strange thing is that, when I'm logged-in it shows non-sticky latest post, even if it's private... <?php ...
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I would like to change the sticky posts label “Featured” to something else

On the posts that we label "sticky" the word "featured" appears. How can I change that to "new"? David
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Custom query: how to get the sticky posts first?

I noticed that if I code a custom WP_Query, sticky posts don't show first in the list. So I was wandering how to achieve that. I've almost done it with 3 subsequent queries, but I guess there must be ...
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Can't get pagination to work for sticky posts only

I don't get my pagination to work. I need to filter my posts on sticky posts and display only two per page. Tried almost everything but can't get it to work. It is totally ignoring my posts_per_page ...
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How to display sticky post with custom html

I'd like to display 9 posts and be able to insert a sticky post with its custom html template in between 4th & 5th post. Currently the sticky post gets displayed in both the "sticky container" and ...
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How to retrieve “sticky” post outside the “loop”?

I need to display the "sticky" post in a section that is outside the "loop". Can someone tell me how to do this?
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How to check a post is sticky or not yet?

I want to check a post a post is sticky or not to do some function. Thanks all for help ;)
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How to display a sticky post inside a div?

I have a and inside it I would like to add the contents of the first sticky post. I went on codex.wordpress.org to find more about wp_query and saw this code that I could use to solve my problem: ...
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Get all sticky posts from one user through user ID

So I need to get number of sticky posts each user have and compare it to one variable. I managed to do this, but I am wondering is this the right way to do it. //Retrive all sticky posts ID ...
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wp_query should show stickies first

I have the problem that my theme is for some reason always showing the latest posts at first. I would however like it to show all stickies at first and then show the regular ones. Here is the code: ...
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WooThemes Mini Features - modify query_posts to display only sticky_posts

/* Mini-Features */ ?> <div id="sub-featured" class="<?php echo $main_css_class; ?> section"> <h2 class="section-title"><?php echo stripslashes( ...
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Sticky posts don't show up first in custom loop

I'm using the following query in my frontpage template: <?php $paged = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1; $args=array( 'paged' => ...
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209 views

How to stick custom post at the top in search results

I'm trying to stick a post in the search results for the value and meta_key meta_value. If the search results in the post is meta_key - sticky and meta_value - fatured, the display on top of these ...
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Make posts_per_page value the same on all pages

I'm almost finished with this one, just a small problem left. Hope you can help me. I've got two very simple, custom loops. One for sticky posts, and one for non-sticky. I've manage to get the sticky ...
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marking a post that was sticky on category template

i want some how to mark the post that has been featured (was a sticky post) in the category template. in wordpress logic it should be something like - was_sticky(); anybody?
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Category sticky latest

I've been trying to write a script that shows the latest (single) post (in a particular category), however, if the user has chosen to have a post be sticky then the sticky post shows. When the sticky ...
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456 views

How to make sticky posts for category pages

how do I make certain posts to stay at the top for each category page. That is I want sticky posts for category pages. Thanks
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1answer
513 views

How to retrieve sticky post in raw sql?

How I could made a sql query who retrieve all the sticky post in a wordpress database? This is because we use a new app over the old wordpress website database, and I don't know where Wordpress ...
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1answer
121 views

Custom loop off by one post

Within my loop I want to display 9 posts that exclude categories X, Y, Z and all sticky posts. Between post 3 and 5 I would like to place a sticky post with a custom template. The below works ...
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wordpress query_posts featured page always on top

I'm using the query_posts for "Page" item rather than "Post". I want to have the ability to make the "featured" page always on the top, we could add a custom field called "featured_product", if it's ...
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How can I display only sticky posts from a parent category on the homepage?

On my homepage, I have 3 columns showing varying amounts of information from posts in specific categories (first 2 of them child categories, the third column displays posts from various child ...
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Showing sticky posts with get_posts()

I'm using this to retrieve posts on my index page: <?php $posts = get_posts( "category=13&numberposts=2" ); ?> <?php if( $posts ) : ?> <?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : ...

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