Title: ‘Include Post’ behaves unexpectedly
Last modified: February 10, 2021

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# ‘Include Post’ behaves unexpectedly

 *  Resolved [jamesbrodie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesbrodie/)
 * (@jamesbrodie)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-post-behaves-unexpectedly/)
 * Hi
 * I’m using a post-grid block to display content of a particular type. I’m really
   happy with it but have hit an issue.
 * I want to display the 6 latest posts in the category ‘news’. This works fine.
 * But then I want to include a particular post of importance, so I add its post
   id into the ‘include post’ field. What I expect to happen is it then forces that
   post to be included whether it’s one of the latest 6 or not, and the other 5 
   are the latest 5 posts.
 * What actually happens is that it displays ONLY that one post and nothing else.
 * Is this the intended behaviour? It doesn’t make sense to me.
 * Regards
    James

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 *  Plugin Author [WPXPO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpxpo/)
 * (@wpxpo)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-post-behaves-unexpectedly/#post-14034184)
 * Hello [@jamesbrodie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesbrodie/),
 * WP_Query has ‘post__in’ and ‘tax_query’ parameters. When you choose any Taxonomy
   and Include it at the same time then WP_Query intercepts the common post. You
   can read the wp_query documentation [https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/).
 * Here is the example-
 *     ```
           $args = array(
               'post_type' => 'post',
               'posts_per_page' => 6,
               'orderby' => 'post__in',
               'order' => 'desc',
               'paged' => 1,
               'post_status' => 'publish',
               'post__in' => array(3896, 3893),
               'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,
               'tax_query' => array(
                   'relation' => 'OR',
                   0 => array(
                       'taxonomy' => 'category',
                       'field' => 'slug',
                       'terms' => array('fashion', 'entertainment')
                   )
               ),
           );
           $query = new WP_Query( $args );
       ```
   
 * It’s possible to append post__in to the query. But currently, our plugins have
   no option like this.
    Thanks.

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [WPXPO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpxpo/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-post-behaves-unexpectedly/#post-14034184)
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