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1. Wiki Chaves
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   I´m having a problem with sticky and recent posts

   I wan to have in the front page of my blog (http://bloggertone.com/) allways 4 posts. And I want to be able to (if i want) use sticky posts in order to my convenience.

   What i´ve first done is to query last 4 posts, but if i´ve selected 2 stickies the frontpage showed me 6 posts (2 stickies first, then 4 recent)

   So what i did is this query
   <?php query_posts('caller_get_posts=0&cat=-19&showposts='. ( 4 - $sticky ));?>

   Everything seemed to be OK but then i´ve realized that if i marked one recent posts as sticky, the frontpage only showed me 3 posts (4 posts - 1 sticky)

   Does it makes any sense ?
   Is there a way to fix this ?

   Thanks !
   Wiki

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Try caller_get_posts=1

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts#Sticky_Post_Parameters

3. Wiki Chaves
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hmm, I´ve just tried but didn´t worked.

   Any other idea ?

   Thanks!

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   query_posts(array("post__not_in" =>get_option("sticky_posts")));
   ??

5. Wiki Chaves
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Nope :(

   first cause i want to show only 4 posts and exclude categroy 19.

   Then, i Dont`t want to exclude sticky. What I want is to be counted as 1 post, not as a duplicated post (if is recent and sticky it counts me as twice)

   Thanks !

6. Wiki Chaves
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   As I´ve seen it´s a WP bug not solved yet
   http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9300

   Does anybody know some hack to solve this ?

   Thanks
   Wiki

7. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Brute force? Use two loops, first for stickies up to 4 (count stickies), second for recent not sticky, retrieve 4 - sticky_count if sticky_count < 4.

8. Wiki Chaves
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hmm I have tried some kind of these, but stickies counts different if it is siticky and recent and if it is only sticky.

   Anyway i would like to try again.

   Do you know the code i should use in the query ?

   regards,
   Wiki

9. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I don't have a complete example, but look at this post for how to get the n recently posted (or recently made sticky) posts.

   Then count the number actually shown in the first loop.

   If less than 4 were shown, for the second loop, retrieve the 4 most recent posts. In the loop, show only if (!s_sticky(get_the_ID())) and the total count shown < 4.

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