jkovis

I haven’t worked with sticky posts that much, but it may be easiest to add a counter to make sure you show at most nine posts. Something like the following should work:

<?php
  if(have_posts()) :
    $post_counter = 1;
    while(have_posts()) : the_post();
      if ( $post_counter < $ppp ) :
?>
<!-- html to display the posts -->
<?php
      endif;
     $post_counter++;
    endwhile;
endif;
?>

I would like to be able to apply a class to each image I put in my posts

– Are the default classes that WordPress provides not adequate enough? Are you trying to target CSS styles to post images?

– I took a quick look and couldn’t find anywhere to hook into the default image classes WordPress uses, though I guess you could filter the post content before it’s saved to the database.

Or maybe even add another option to type in a classname?

– When using the visual editor if you hover over an image already in the post editor there is an image editor icon that appears. On the modal window that appears after clicking the icon there is an “Advanced Editor” that lets you add additional class names.

Are you defining $ppp as equaling 9 somewhere?

If not, I’d try setting it to 9 ($ppp = 9;) or, from looking at WP_Query regarding sticky posts it looks like you can try using:

$args=array(
  'posts_per_page' => $ppp,
  'meta_key' => '_thumbnail_id'
  'post__not_in' => get_option( 'sticky_posts' )
  );

Use a WP_Query for each link.

Something like:

<?php
$video_query_args = array( 'category_name' => 'videos', 'posts_per_page' => 1 );
$video_query = new WP_Query( $video_query_args );

if ( $video_query->have_posts() ) :
    while ( $video_query->have_posts() ) : $video_query->the_post();
?>
<span class="homeblueTitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">video</a></span>
<?php
    endwhile;
endif;
wp_reset_postdata();
?>

Does your theme support WordPress menus?

Have you checked off “Enable threaded (nested) comments # levels deep” on wp-admin/options-discussion.php?

WordPress defaults to show the newest posts on the font page so you can try changing the post dates/times so they appear in the order you want .

whoops author !== post_author, good catch alchymyth