Sticky Posts
Topics
A Sticky Post is the post will be placed at the top of the front page of posts. This feature is only available for the built-in post type post and not for custom post types.
How to stick a post How to stick a post
- Go to Administration Screen > Posts > Add New or Edit
- In the right side menu, Click Edit link of Visibility option in Publish group
- Click Stick this post to the front page option
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Display Sticky Posts Display Sticky Posts
Show Sticky Posts Show Sticky Posts
Display just the first sticky post. At least one post must be designated as a “sticky post” or else the loop will display all posts:
$sticky = get_option( 'sticky_posts' );
$query = new WP_Query( 'p=' . $sticky[0] );
Display just the first sticky post, if none return the last post published:
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 1,
'post__in' => get_option( 'sticky_posts' ),
'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
Display just the first sticky post, if none return nothing:
$sticky = get_option( 'sticky_posts' );
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 1,
'post__in' => $sticky,
'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
if ( isset( $sticky[0] ) ) {
// insert here your stuff...
}
Don’t Show Sticky Posts Don’t Show Sticky Posts
Exclude all sticky posts from the query:
$query = new WP_Query( array( 'post__not_in' => get_option( 'sticky_posts' ) ) );
Exclude sticky posts from a category. Return ALL posts within the category, but don’t show sticky posts at the top. The ‘sticky posts’ will still show in their natural position (e.g. by date):
$query = new WP_Query( 'ignore_sticky_posts=1&posts;_per_page=3&cat;=6' );
Exclude sticky posts from a category. Return posts within the category, but exclude sticky posts completely, and adhere to paging rules:
$paged = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
$sticky = get_option( 'sticky_posts' );
$args = array(
'cat' => 3,
'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,
'post__not_in' => $sticky,
'paged' => $paged
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
<?php /* Get all Sticky Posts */ $sticky = get_option( 'sticky_posts' ); /* Sort Sticky Posts, newest at the top */ rsort( $sticky ); /* Get top 5 Sticky Posts */ $sticky = array_slice( $sticky, 0, 5 ); /* Query Sticky Posts */ $query = new WP_Query( array( 'post__in' => $sticky, 'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1 ) ); ?>
Style Sticky Posts Style Sticky Posts
To help theme authors perform simpler styling, the post_class() function is used to add class=”…” to DIV, just add:
<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
The post_class() outputs the class=”whatever” piece for that div. This includes several different classes of value: post, hentry (for hAtom microformat pages), category-X (where X is the slug of every category the post is in), and tag-X (similar, but with tags). It also adds “sticky” for posts marked as Sticky Posts.
.sticky { color:red; }
Note: The “sticky” class is only added for sticky posts on the first page of the home page (is_home() is true and is_paged() is false)