http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support User Favorites: indojepang en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:20:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208037#post-1202714 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:26:34 +0000 philpeter 1202714@http://wordpress.org/support/ <blockquote><p>`query_posts(array(<br /> "post__not_in" =&gt; get_option("sticky_posts")<br /> ));`</p></blockquote> <p>I've used this solution but it's not working for me. I'm using it in the second loop in my home.php file, which is preceded by wp_reset_query().</p> <p>The first loop uses this wp_query:<br /> <code>query_posts(array(&#39;post__in&#39;=&gt;get_option(&#39;sticky_posts&#39;)));</code></p> <p>The second uses:<br /> <code>query_posts(array(&quot;post__not_in&quot;=&gt;get_option(&quot;sticky_posts&quot;)));</code></p> <p>But I see the same (sticky) post as the first post produced by both loops. In date order it would be the third post.</p> <p>Any idea why this wouldn't work? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208037#post-1124199 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:56:18 +0000 termserv 1124199@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I'm bumping this.</p> <p>I want to use the loop as I usually would, except I'm using query_posts to get the posts from a specific category. How can I use query_posts and still get the sticky posts at the top? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208037#post-1121409 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:57:52 +0000 pumpkindoodle 1121409@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I'm having a different problem, using Atahualpa, where I have query_posts to include only one category on homepage:</p> <p>&lt;?php<br /> if (is_home()) {<br /> query_posts("cat=4");<br /> }<br /> ?&gt;</p> <p>but when I use that, the formatting I've applied to sticky posts disappears. Atahualpa folks say it's not their issue. Any thoughts? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226855#post-1117589 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:28:36 +0000 focused313 1117589@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>thanks Simon J, that worked much better than what I had on one of my sites. I think the script I had was also too heavy. Now I just have to make that thumbnail link to the post which shouldn't be too hard. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208037#post-1086218 Fri, 29 May 2009 03:54:43 +0000 milet22 1086218@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>thank you jordiromkema and nathan!</p> <p>nathan's definite guide to sticky posts has been invaluable, and jordironmkema, the post_not_in code elegantly replaces a hacked block of code.</p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208037#post-1040555 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:55:56 +0000 chico203 1040555@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks a lot, this help me ! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208037#post-1038478 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:16:35 +0000 jteg 1038478@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Sometimes asking a question is just what it takes to solve the problem. </p> <pre><code>&lt;?php if (get_option(&#39;sticky_posts&#39;)) { // Do this if there is any sticky post. } else { // Do this if there isnt. } ?&gt;</code></pre> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208037#post-1038471 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:09:52 +0000 jteg 1038471@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>wprabbit: Did you solve your issue? </p> <p>I have the same problem: if there's no sticky post the loop is returning 10 regular posts. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/170970#post-972511 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:37:07 +0000 indojepang 972511@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Many thanks holney this solve my problem :D<br /> one thing though.. how can I exclude the active post? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208037#post-969299 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:31:07 +0000 MichaelH 969299@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>@nathanrice</p> <blockquote><p>The possibilities of the sticky options are much greater than just "sticking a post to the homepage". </p></blockquote> <p>If you have more examples or ideas, please add them to the Codex and thanks for doing so. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208037#post-969297 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:29:53 +0000 MichaelH 969297@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Incorporated some of the ideas from this thread into:<br /> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts#Sticky_Post_Parameters" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts#Sticky_Post_Parameters</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208037#post-968840 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:58:10 +0000 jordiromkema 968840@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I used:</p> <pre><code>query_posts(array( &quot;post__not_in&quot; =&gt; get_option(&quot;sticky_posts&quot;) ));</code></pre> <p>to get rid of all the sticky posts in the loop. Strange that it's not in the documentation. Worked for me, hope it works for you too :) </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/209240#post-950430 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:09:37 +0000 Hiroaki Miyashita 950430@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi C0BALT,<br /> I released the version 0.8. I added the blank option. If you set <code>blank = true</code> attribute, the value will be saved if it is blank.<br /> Please try it out. Thanks. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/209240#post-943393 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:48:25 +0000 C0BALT 943393@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>This is a very good plugin.<br /> I'm having a slightly different problem around having "blank" custom fields.</p> <p>I would like to force appending a single space into a text area to prevent the sql-data entry from disappearing.</p> <p>I have 12 posts (of a specific category) which are cleared (not deleted) via cron at midnight every day. These posts are then editable by editors through-out the day with up to the minute information via the custom-fields plugin. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208037#post-935707 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:55:09 +0000 wprabbit 935707@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I am working on a new site and wanted to use the new sticky function to create a highlight area ("Items to watch"). Otto's solution works great to pull the sticky posts out, but if there are no sticky posts, it is returning the regular stream of posts and spits out the number of them defined in the settings panel.</p> <p>anyone have a way to degrade something like this in case there are no posts specified as sticky? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/209240#post-934753 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:39:12 +0000 wordpredia 934753@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Great!<br /> Is it possible when a user mark the right answer add a point to the user profile/account? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208037#post-934241 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:56:17 +0000 reececonrad 934241@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>lairdf, did you figure it out? I'm trying to do the exact same thing. can't get a query returned that excludes the sticky posts. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/149530#post-931693 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:30:21 +0000 kevinandamanda 931693@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>endortrails &#38; Kafkaesqui, you guys are GENIUSES!!! :) Thank you so much, this is exactly what I was looking for!! :) Live example on this page:</p> <p><a href="http://www.kevinandamanda.com/recipes/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kevinandamanda.com/recipes/</a></p> <p>Thank you again! :) </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226855#post-931115 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:59:36 +0000 indojepang 931115@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Justin has already released plugin for this -&gt; <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/05/27/get-the-image-wordpress-plugin">http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/05/27/get-the-image-wordpress-plugin</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226855#post-930982 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:52:37 +0000 SimonJ 930982@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Ok...</p> <p>And here is the solution for the code using the custom field :</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $image = get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#39;thumbnail&#39;, true); $link = get_permalink($post-&gt;ID); if ($image == &#39;&#39;) { echo &#39;&#39;; } else { echo &#39;&lt;a href=&quot;&#39;.$link.&#39;&quot; title=&quot;&#39;.$post-&gt;post_title.&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;&#39;.$image.&#39;&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#39;; } ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>I made a mistake with the if contidition :</p> <p>My mistake :<br /> <code>if ($image == 0)</code></p> <p>It should be :<br /> <code>if ($image == &#39;&#39;)</code></p> <p>S. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226855#post-930962 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:29:43 +0000 SimonJ 930962@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hola Jonny</p> <p>This error message means one thing : you likely have a space, a break line or a blank character in : functions.php at the line 433.</p> <p>It's a usual error read here.</p> <p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Answers-Trouble_Shooting#Headers_already_sent" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Answers-Trouble_Shooting#Headers_already_sent</a></p> <p>To avoid this kind of error, always edit your file with a good text editor, like notepad++</p> <p>You can read the solutions in the codex page I linked above.</p> <p>To repair it fast, just upload a fresh copy of functions.php from the original theme folder you downloaded.</p> <p>---</p> <p>For the first code I gave you, I didn't test it with a custom field, I just putted your original line as the first varable. But I'm pretty sure the rest of the code should work...</p> <p>But for the functions I gave you in my second message, I'm 100% sure it should work... I use it in almost all my sites and have it in my test installation with the last WP version. It works pretty well without the "header already sent" error. This error is not relative to the function itself.</p> <p>Just repair your functions.php and add the function with a good text editor, it should work.</p> <p>S. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226855#post-930801 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:16:02 +0000 jonnyburch 930801@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks simon - </p> <p>Unfortunately I tried putting your code into my functions.php and got this error whenever i tried to do anything else:</p> <blockquote><p>Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/MY SITE NAME/wp-content/themes/geex3m/functions.php:433) in /home/MY SITE NAME/wp-admin/theme-editor.php on line 62 </p></blockquote> <p>also the first code looks like it should work really well but doesn't<br /> Im sure it's something im doing wrong... that warning message has got me worried though. I have now got rid of the code but it's still doing it. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226855#post-930236 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:39:32 +0000 SimonJ 930236@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>By the way, I wrote a simple function to display the thumbnail of the first image attached to a post.</p> <p>As I can see, you use the custom field to display your thumbnail. But you don't need to do so. You can automatically display a thumbnail if you uploaded an image via the write post interface.</p> <pre><code>function the_post_thumbnail() { global $wpdb; global $post; $thumb = $wpdb-&gt;get_var(&quot;SELECT ID FROM $wpdb-&gt;posts where post_parent= $post-&gt;ID and post_type = &#39;attachment&#39;&quot;); $thumbnail = wp_get_attachment_thumb_url($thumb); if ($thumb == 0) { echo &#39;&#39;; } else { echo &#39;&lt;img src=&quot;&#39;.$thumbnail.&#39;&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&#39;; } }</code></pre> <p>With this function in your functions.php (in your theme directory), you just have to use :</p> <p><code>&lt;?php the_post_thumbnail();?&gt;</code></p> <p>Anywhere in your loop to display the thumbnail... :-)</p> <p>S. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226855#post-930220 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:21:30 +0000 SimonJ 930220@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi Jonny,</p> <p>Replace your code with this one, it should work :</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $image = get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#39;thumbnail&#39;, true); $link = get_permalink($post-&gt;ID); if ($image == 0) { echo &#39;&#39;; } else { echo &#39;&lt;a href=&quot;&#39;.$link.&#39;&quot; title=&quot;&#39;.$post-&gt;post_title.&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;&#39;.$image.&#39;&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#39;; } ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>This code looks if your $image variable is empty (if ($image == 0))</p> <p>If so, it echoes nothing.</p> <p>If there is something, it echoes the img tag enclosed in a link to the post.</p> <p>I'm far than being a php guru, so maybe there is a more fancy way to write it, but as I said, it should work... :-)</p> <p>S. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/209240#post-930169 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:15:08 +0000 Dgold 930169@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>You're welcome. I was very happy too when someone showed me that type of code on here earlier. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/209240#post-930006 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:27:03 +0000 CowboyFrank 930006@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p><strong>WOW!</strong> Thanks so much! Works perfectly. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226855#post-929983 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:48:49 +0000 jonnyburch 929983@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi, I am having a real issue with a website - I have managed to place thumbnails of post images on the front page of my website but some of the posts will not have images attached and at the moment that just leaves them with a blank space - I am very new to php and cannot code the appropriate if/else bit that excludes the thumbnail box when there isnt an image available.</p> <p>This is what i have so far:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $image = get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#39;thumbnail&#39;, true); ?&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;&lt;?php the_permalink() ?&gt;&quot; title=&quot;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;&lt;?php echo $image; ?&gt;&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</code></pre> <p>I have tried various things but always end up bodging them.<br /> some help would be most appreciated.</p> <p>Jonny </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/209240#post-929194 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:32:48 +0000 Dgold 929194@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>@ CowboyFrank, try something like this</p> <p>It says IF your custom field key's value == '' BLANK, then (do nothing), or you could put something here like printing "There's not a thumbnail for this post because I forgot to put one"</p> <p>ELSE, IF it isn't blank, then echo the value (prints your thumbnail).</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $yourthumbnailkey_values = get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#39;Thumbnail&#39;, true); if ($yourthumbnailkey_values == &#39;&#39;) { ?&gt; &lt;?php } else { ?&gt; &lt;?php echo $yourthumbnailkey_values; ?&gt; &lt;?php } ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>Hope that works for ya! I found it very useful. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/209240#post-929048 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:43:27 +0000 CowboyFrank 929048@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Uh Oh! I'm using the code I posted above:<br /> <pre><code>&lt;?php $mykey_values = get_post_custom_values(&#39;Thumbnail&#39;); foreach ( $mykey_values as $key =&gt; $value ) { echo &quot;$value&quot;; }?&gt;</code></pre> <p>...Which works fine where there's a value assigned to the corresponding custom field (Thumbnail, in this example). However, though the codex documentation (<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_custom_values" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_custom_values</a>) says that a custom field left blank will return nothing, I get this error for any post that does not have content in the custom field:<br /> <code>Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in path/single.php on line X</code><br /> (Actual path truncated and line number removed.) Do I need some kind of "if" piece of code, to ensure that a blank custom field will return nothing? I'm a total noob with PHP, so I'd need this spelled out for me. </p> <p>I can give practical examples if necessary. Thanks! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/209240#post-925861 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:42:53 +0000 Hiroaki Miyashita 925861@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Great! Send me the file to <code>webmaster[at]wordpressgogo.com</code>. I will include it in the next release. If you have your site, I will link to it from the plugin page. So, let me know. Thank you!! </p>