Show sticky posts only on homepage in Ethos

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#1

Hi there,

I’m looking to show only sticky posts on my homepage. I’ve set blog post show at most to 6. Sticky posts are showing but so are all recent and I’m getting 15 per page. Apologies if I’m missing something obvious here.

Site in question is at http://mrssmithsays.com/ using WP 4.8.1 and x theme 5.1.0

Help greatly appreciated.

Dave

#2

Hey,

You can show these sticky posts adding the Recent post element that allow adding 4 post -> http://prntscr.com/ggwf7h

#3

Hi John,

That’s still not working as I’d hoped (or even at all!).

Just created a new page at http://mrssmithsays.com/test-home-2/ and something odd going on here…

Page is pulling in the 7 sticky posts but then adding Finance - day 5 (not sticky). Posts displayed in one column (though set to horizontal) and showing 8 in total though recent posts set to 2!

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dave

#4

Hi Dave,

Can you confirm that you are fully updated? (Theme and Plugins)

You can find the latest version numbers here: (https://theme.co/apex/forum/t/troubleshooting-version-compatibility/195 ) Then you can compare them to what’s installed on your site.

If you find anything to be out of date, you can review our update guide.

Don’t forget to review the changelog before updating.

http://theme.co/changelog/

Thanks

#5

Hi Paul,

I’ve updated to latest version of theme (I was on 5.1) as well as latest Cornerstone and all active plugins. I’m running WP 4.8.1, Still got this issue with recent posts / sticky posts just not working as they should in cornerstone.

Can give you admin access if required.

Thanks,

dave

#6

Hi Dave,

Yes, please provide us your wordpress admin login in Secure Note

Thanks

#7

I’ve added a secure note to previous thread. Thanks.

#8

Hi there,

It would be easier if you will follow the suggestion here on how to create a widget that only displays the sticky posts since the post page for the homepage will display all the posts displaying the recent ones first.

Hope this helps.

#9

Hi there,

Thanks for getting back to me but that didn’t really resolve the problem since the code just delivers a text list of posts and not the masonry grid I need (or thought would be a simple feature of X).

I’ve created image and text boxes (shoved together with css) and linked these to post categories and this is doing what I wanted to achieve. I’m keeping on this thread though because I still have a problem with sticky posts…

My understanding is sticky posts should be delivered before all others in a category archive but this doesn’t appear to be the case. All posts remain date ordered. Is this how it should be? What does flagging a post as sticky achieve, if not to deliver at top of a category / archive etc?

Example of point in question can be seen at http://mrssmithsays.com/category/family-food/ where family food day 1 is sticky but appears at number 6 in the list!

Help appreciated.

Thanks,

Dave

#10

Hello Dave,

By default, sticky posts only stick to the top of the first page of the main blog posts index. For more details about how sticky posts works, please check out this documentation: https://codex.wordpress.org/Sticky_Posts

If you want to display sticky post in a category archive page, you might be interested in this tutorials:

Hope this helps. Please let us know how it goes.