Keep featured content post in homepage with original order

Question

I'm searching how to keep the featured post in my blog homepage without excluding it from query post. My blog uses the Twenty Fourteen theme. I found this solution.

Open the featured-content.php from your theme's inc folder, and look for the following code (line 269 in our case).

$query->set( 'post__not_in', $featured );

Simply comment out this line, by adding two slashes in front of it, to get this:

// $query->set( 'post__not_in', $featured );

But the file doesn't have that line and the child theme cannot override the parent theme's inc folder.

I have found another solution and it works, but, the problem is this code show the featured content post not in their original order. When old content post - I'm using sticky post to make featured post - become featured, the featured content post will become the first order then the other post.

I have try using conditional tag like this.

function show_featured_content_on_home() {
if ( !is_home() ) {
remove_action( 'pre_get_posts', array( 'Featured_Content', 'pre_get_posts' ) );
    }
}
add_action( 'init', 'show_featured_content_on_home', 31 );

The second page and so on okay - show the featured posts in order - but the homepage still have problem.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I think you can use the WPQuery

    $the_query = new WP_Query( array( 'post__in' => get_option( 'sticky_posts' )) ); ?>

    <?php if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : ?>

        <!-- pagination here -->

        <!-- the loop -->
        <?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>   
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
        <?php endwhile; ?>
        <!-- end of the loop -->

        <!-- pagination here -->

        <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>


    <?php endif; ?>

and for ordering your post you can use order and orderby see reference https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query