Question

I would like to get help with a issue I’m having with the WordPress sticky posts function.

I cant figure it out how to make the stick post stick to the beginning of the loop. I have a loop similar to his:

<?php query_posts('cat=10&posts_per_page=3');?>  
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> 

And I would like it to work like this:

• Sticky post
• Ordinary post
• Ordinary post

Instead for:

• Ordinary post
• Sticky post
• Ordinary post

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

My solution here http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

I made two queries, in this case I’m not using pagination maybe this can help

    $sticky = get_option( 'sticky_posts' );
    $args_nonsticky = array(
        'showposts'     => -1,
        'post__not_in' => $sticky
    );
    $args_sticky = array(
        'posts_per_page' => -1,
        'post__in'  => $sticky
    );

    $the_query_sticky = new WP_Query($args_sticky); 
    $the_query_nonsticky = new WP_Query($args_nonsticky);

    if(!$the_query_sticky->have_posts() && !$the_query_nonsticky->have_posts()){
        //echo '<h1>NO POSTS FOUND</h1>';
    }else{              

    if ( $sticky[0] ) {
    while ($the_query_sticky->have_posts()) : $the_query_sticky->the_post(); 
      //sticky if so...
    endwhile;
    }

    while ($the_query_nonsticky->have_posts()) : $the_query_nonsticky->the_post(); 
        // non sticky
    endwhile;
}