Multiple loops on index page with sticky post and pagination

Question

First post on this site. Hope to get some help from you guys. Probably a simple answer for you experts.

I have two category's (news & work). I want to show on my index page (wordpress startpage/blog) the five latest news at the top (cat. news). Below that i want to show my post (cat news & work). I also have sticky posts in the work cat, that I want to only on the first page.

I think this means three loops. one for news, one for sticky in work & news, and then one for work & news, none sticky. I can get this to work, but the problem is that my sticky post shows up first on all the pages when I paginate on the index-file (eg. press the read prev post, /page/2, /page/3 etc..

How can I make the sticky post to be sticky only on the first page (index.php)?

Here is my code:

<div id="news">

<?php $wp_query = new WP_Query(array('category_name' => News, 'posts_per_page' => 5)); ?>

<?php while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

    <?php get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' ); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

</div><!--#news-->



<div id="work">

<!-- Sticky -->

<?php if ( $paged != True ): ?>

<?php $wp_query = new WP_Query(array('post__in' => get_option('sticky_posts'), 'category_name' => Work)); ?>

<?php while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

    <?php get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' ); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

<?php endif ?>





<!-- Non Sticky -->

<?php $wp_query = new WP_Query(array('post__not_in' => get_option('sticky_posts'), 'category_name' => Work, 'posts_per_page' => 8, 'paged' => $paged)); ?>

<?php while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

        <?php get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' ); ?>

    <?php endwhile; ?>

<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

</div><!--#work-->

Thanks /K

My pagination code:

function pagination() {  
 global $wp_query;
 $total = $wp_query->max_num_pages;
 // Only paginate if we have more than one page
 if ( $total > 1 )  {
     // Get the current page
     if ( !$current_page = get_query_var('paged') )
          $current_page = 1;
     // Structure of “format” depends on whether we’re using pretty permalinks
    $permalinks = get_option('permalink_structure');
    $format = empty( $permalinks ) ? '&page=%#%' : 'page/%#%/';
    echo paginate_links(array(
          'base' => get_pagenum_link(1) . '%_%',
          'format' => $format,
          'current' => $current_page,
          'total' => $total,
          'mid_size' => 2,
          'prev_next' => False
    ));
}
}

Answer 1

Where you do your pagination, you can use something like if( $page != 1 ). This allows you you to output certain sections on only the first page. You will need to change $page to your pagination variable, but that is trivial.