I am cutomizing my WordPress theme and I want to add latest 2 sticky post at the top of my WordPress home page. For that I use following code:
<div class="trending-right">
<?php
$sticky = get_option( 'sticky_posts' ); // Get all sticky posts
rsort( $sticky ); // Sort the stickies, latest first
$sticky = array_slice( $sticky, 0, 2 ); // Number of stickies to show
query_posts( array( 'post__in' => $sticky, 'caller_get_posts' => 1 ) ); // The query
if (have_posts() ) { while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="trend-post">
<div class="thumb"><?php the_post_thumbnail(array(150,100)); ?></div>
<div class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
</div>
<?php endwhile;?>
<?php } else { echo ""; }?>
</div>
Now the code works OK and shows the latest 2 sticky posts however it also removes all other listed posts from home page and shows only those 2 sticky posts. I tried replacing query_posts with new WP_Query but in that case it shows ALL sticky posts instead of only 2.
Any suggestion how to tweak above code and make it work?
Looking at your code, I am assuming you’ve just shown us the sticky loop and there is another query to display the other posts elsewhere in the template?. You should use wp_reset_query(); after your custom query, here’s the entry in the Codex;
WordPress – resetting custom query