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1. tstruyf
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   hi,

   I have a page where I show 2 sticky posts followed by 4 normal posts. The sticky posts use another template, so I wrote a loop that only shows the first 2 posts (the stickies) and then a normal loop to show the other posts.

   My problem: If I go to "older posts", the 2 sticky posts aren't present in the loop. The first 2 posts aren't the stickies anymore.

   How can I solve this problem? I don't ask working code. Just some intructions how I should organize my loops. :)

   Thx in advance!

2. tstruyf
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   ok, maybe I need another approach. I can make a separate category for stickies (so I dont't use the sticky option in the wp-admin). Then I could make a different loop for both categories.

   I thought it should work like this:

   $stickies = new WP_Query('category_name=Stickies');
   ... Loop trough $stickies->have_posts()

   $news = new WP_Query('category_name=Uncategorized');
   ... Loop trough $news->have_posts()

   I'm using valid category names. Still $news and $stickies return 0 posts. Is 'category_name' not a valid parameter?

   Or has someone another suggestion to solve my problem?

3. adamJB
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I haven't done any serious work with WordPress in ages, but if you try to use an if statement, or a switch statement instead of two loops, you may find that your problem disappears. But again, I haven't looked into it.

4. tstruyf
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You mean something like this?
   if( post=sticky) : show the post ?

   I'dont think that will fix it.
   Let's say I use the standard post-array, there will be no sticky posts in de array on page 2, 3, 4... ect. So the if-stament will just result in not displaying any sticky posts.

5. tstruyf
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Ok. I found a Solution, but it is not very clean.

   My sticky posts are marked as Sticky in the WP-admin, AND they need to be in a category different from the newsitems.

   I select my sticky posts
   

   $stickies = new WP_Query();
    $stickies->query(array('post__in'=>get_option('sticky_posts')));

   the loop statement is like this:
   while($stickies->have_posts()):$stickies->the_post()

   The newsposts are selected this way

   query_posts('category_name=Uncategorized&paged=' . $paged .'');
   // the loop
   while(have_posts()): the_post();

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