For our blog, MaxPower, we needed to have certain articles ’stay at the top’ longer than others. We found that the stuff we wrote and really liked was getting bogged down and indistinguishable from the other stuff. For example, on this blog we write about everything, but focus on our travel experiences. The question became, how can we focus our front page to feature these experiances, but not loose all the other stuff we have too? This is what we came up with:
Reading the various discussions on multiple loops from the wordpress help forums gave me an idea of using two loops. One would query and show only posts in one category. The other would query all posts in all categories. The first query was cut and paste from the codex and is easy to understand:
$my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=frontpage&showposts=1');
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;
// Do stuff like format the output, maybe in a custom DIV?
In english it translates as, set my_query equal to the result of querying all posts where the catergory is named frontpage and by the way, get me one post only. The key is the last part, set the variable do_not_duplicate equal to the ID number of the single post returned. We will need this value in the next step.
The next piece of code that is important is standard and found in many templates. It simply gets all posts:
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
//do stuff like format each post
endwhile;
In english, this gets all posts, and displays them according to the // do stuff line(s) (template dependant). If you leave the code alone what happens is that your featured post is displayed twice (once in the featured post section, and once in the all other posts section). Obviously this is no good, so this is where the do_not_duplicate variable comes into play. Adding in an if statement prevents the featured post from being displayed twice. Here is that code in context:
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate )
continue;
//do stuff like format each post
endwhile;
With the inclusion of the second if statement the code can be translated into english to mean, get all posts, when you find one where the post equals do_not_duplicate then just do nothing (continue), otherwise display all the other the posts according to the // do stuff line(s). Remeber, the do_not_duplicate variable contains the ID of the post already displayed.
So when you put it all together what do you get? A dynamic sticky post! And the best part is once the feature post is replaced with a new one, the previous feature will show up in the catch all post section below (depending on how many posts you choose to display and on the post frequency)
23 Apr 05
8:04 pm
Very neat expo.
23 Apr 05
8:23 pm
This is great! And you have subsequently solved what has been a niggling problem for me for the last few days! Thank you.
23 Apr 05
9:50 pm
I know deepthough. He’s my friend. He’s smart.
Nice work!
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Just a small fix for your method…
Running the new query reset’s the page count of the index, so the WP paging mechanism is messed up.
An easy fix is to add:
query_posts(’orderby=date’);
after running ‘The Sticky Loop’. This will reset the post variables, and paging will work again =)
19 Aug 05
3:02 pm
Actually, sorry, the about query_posts() command should be:
query_posts($query_string . ‘&orderby=date’);
10 Nov 05
1:04 am
What if you wanted several posts to stay on top, for instance showposts=3?
12 Nov 05
7:31 pm
Thats correct, use the showposts option.
15 Nov 05
8:21 pm
Yes - the showposts option will work, but this will result in the additional posts duplicating: $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate will work for only one post. Sorry I wasn’t more explicit about the problem.
30 Nov 05
10:28 pm
I figured out the solution:
When using the showpost option for more than one post, e.g. query_posts(’showposts=2′) replace,
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;
with
$do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID;
This turns the $do_not_duplicate[] into an array that starts numbering the array elements with 0, 1, 2, etc. for each “sticky” post. Then replace,
if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate )
with
if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate[0] || $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate[1]) etc. adding as many array elements to the conditional statement as there are showposts.
01 Dec 05
11:31 pm
ARGH… I cannot get this to work. I keep getting the following error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in [removed] on line 95
…though line 95 is simply ” ?> ” which is the end of my script. I’m obviously doing something wrong…
10 Dec 05
12:30 pm
Al Z,
you might want to investigate the in_array() function as it would be a generic solution for any number of sticky posts.
Cheers,
24 Jan 06
7:03 am
I figured out a way that the sticky itself can be carried over for paging. Enter your query with
'paged='. $paged, like so:$your_query = new WP_Query('showposts=1&cat=3&paged='. $paged);The loop will then call the most recent post, in that category, for that particular page. I’ve found it very useful — wanted to share.
24 Jan 06
10:09 am
Nice moves Orin! Thanks for stopping by.
03 Sep 06
11:13 am
I’ve been looking for a way to showcase a featured post for a long time. This is great.
I just need to know if the improvements as mentioned in the comments have been added to the article above so it is up-to-date with how the code should be structured? And could you give a specific full example of how to use this to create 1 featured post and then more than one featured post to help make the tutorial easier?
I’ll be putting this to the test soon. Thanks!
08 Sep 06
1:01 pm
I updated this for K2 awhile back, but haven’t looked at it in a long time. So the code hasn’t been updated to reflect people’s helpful comments on this post. I am currently working on another wordpress plugin, after that is done I’ll test out the changes and post an updated version. Based on a quick rescan of everything, it should be fairly straightforward. Feel free to email or contact me for more info.
27 Nov 06
10:57 am
Here is my take on this challenge:
http://velociraptor.info/notes/?p=179
28 Nov 06
1:42 pm
Thanks for this fix. I needed this for my website.
04 Jun 07
4:07 pm
Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks
20 Jul 07
10:01 am
ARGH… I cannot get this to work. I keep getting the following error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in [removed] on line 95
…though line 95 is simply ” ?> ” which is the end of my script. I’m obviously doing something wrong…
I THINK YOU ARE GETTING MY SAME ERROR: THERE IS SOME PROBLEMS WITH “END” TAG
23 Jul 07
7:41 pm
Good information. I think you should try for more? Seems like a good site.
09 Aug 07
8:50 pm
I unable to implement? Get error? Anyone get errors besides me?
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Hi, is it possible for you to publish the code as it should be - the whole mark up with tags?
Jag want to use this neaty trick as a sideblog with 2 posts but i can’t manage it properly
Thanks for you help in advance.
//Lillan
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Hi
in which file i shall write down this piece of code?
there are a lot of files….
kind regards, john
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