Cannot “unsticky” post

  • Resolved faglork

    (@faglork)


    2 years, 7 months ago

    Hi!

    I just noticed that I can’t “unsticky” posts anymore.

    – when I disable “make this post sticky” the post disappears from the list of sticky posts, but is still shown sticky on front page (caching is disabled)

    – a look in wp_options table shows that no post is sticky:
    sticky_posts a:0:{}

    – when I duplicate the post, delete the original post and save the duplicate under the same filename (slug), but different ID, it is still shown sticky on front page (caching is disabled)

    – when I duplicate the post, delete the original post and save the duplicate under a different filename (slug), but different ID, it is still shown sticky on front page (caching is disabled)

    I have to delete the post to get rid of the “sticky” property.

    It is not post-specific, it affects all posts – as soon as I make the sticky, I can’t unsticky them.

    Changing themes does not help.

    What determines the sticky property besides the entry in wp_options?

    Cheers,
    Alex

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  • The entry you mentioned in the options table is usually quite sufficient. If no caching plugin is in the way, it could be only a special treatment by the used theme. Since you are using a commercial product like Hueman Pro, I would ask you to contact their support: https://presscustomizr.com/hueman/

    Thread Starter faglork

    (@faglork)

    “The entry you mentioned in the options table is usually quite sufficient.”
    That is why I am at a loss …

    “If no caching plugin is in the way”
    Cache plugin is deactivated – cache cleared – browser cache cleared – no change.

    “it could be only a special treatment by the used theme.”
    As I wrote: “Changing themes does not help.” I tried 2020 and 2022. No change.

    The problem is not theme-specific.

    cheers,
    Alex

    Thread Starter faglork

    (@faglork)

    It went briefly away, but now the problem is back :-((

    I double-checked:

    – post is made sticky, stays on frontpage, appears in “sticky posts” list

    – post is made unsticky, still stays on frontpage, but disappears in “sticky posts” list

    – post is duplicated, original post is deleted

    – duplicate post is saved under different filename, differnet ID, different date (2 days back). post is not sticky, and not in “sticky posts” list

    -> the post is still sticky on frontpage, carrying the new ID and filename!!

    Cache plugin w3tc is disabled.
    Changing themes has no effect.

    I am completely at loss.

    Alex

    Since you are using a commercial product like Hueman Pro, I would ask you to contact their support: https://presscustomizr.com/hueman/ – we here do not know what this theme do in the database to save sticky posts. As described in the forum guidelines you’ll not get help here for commercial products.

    Thread Starter faglork

    (@faglork)

    Does anybody actually read my posts?

    I have now told THREE times that this problem is theme-independend: Changing themes does not change anything. I tested with 2020 and 2022. No change.

    Alex

    Thread Starter faglork

    (@faglork)

    Nevermind. I got it. An idiotic configuration problem.

    And which ones? Would be interesting for others who fail to do so.

    Thread Starter faglork

    (@faglork)

    It is a bit embarassing ??

    I use WPFTS Pro and I accidentally activated the option that the posts shold not be sorted by time, but by “time last modified”. So every time I made the post “unsticky” I “modified” it and it stayed on position 1 – because sorted by “last time modified”. And even when I deleted it and made the same post but dated back, it would still appear on first position …

    Had I immediately posted a bunch of new articles, I would have noticed that the ex-sticky post would have wandered down the timeline. But I did not, because I was so perplexed and was preoccupied with looking for an error/bug.

    Over night, my team collegues added more posts, and in the morning the “ex-sticky” post wasn’t on the frontpage anymore. So I wrote it off as a one-time quirk – until it happened with the next sticky post.

    But then I modified some real old files, and they showed up on front page … which brought me on the right track.

    Took me a while to figure that out, though. Since I chose the option “sort by time last modified” accidentally – it is a dropdown and I must have selected the wrong option – I could not remember it, I thought I had chosen “sort by time published”. But after the re-appearing of old posts I remembered that there WAS such an option, so I checked and saw that indeed I had activated the wrong one …

    Alex

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by faglork.
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