Display Sticky posts only from specific category

  • I have been working on a personal project to learn more advanced techniques in WordPress and one of the features i require is to display the latest three sticky posts from a specific category. I have some code however its only displaying the latest three posts that not the latest three sticky posts from a specific category.

    <?php $sticky=get_option('sticky_posts');
$query_args=array(
'post__in' => $sticky,
'category__in'=>array($category)
 );
$the_query = new WP_Query($query_args); ?>
<?php $count = 0; ?>
<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>
<?php $count++; ?>  

	<?php if ($count == 1) : ?>
		<div class="featurethumb"><?php the_post_thumbnail(array(306,306), array ('class' => 'featurethumb')); ?>
	<div class="featuretitle-bg"><div class="featuretitle"><a title="<?php the_title(); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></div>
	<div class="featured-desc"><?php the_excerpt(__('(more…)')); ?></div></div>
	</div>
	<?php elseif ($count == 2) : ?>
		<div class="index-thumb"><?php the_post_thumbnail(array(100,100), array ('class' => 'alignleft1')); ?></div>
<div class="indexblog-title"><a title="<?php the_title(); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
<?php the_excerpt(__('(more…)')); ?>
	<?php else : ?>
		<div class="index-thumb"><?php the_post_thumbnail(array(100,100), array ('class' => 'alignleft2')); ?></div>
<div class="indexblog-title"><a title="<?php the_title(); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
<?php the_excerpt(__('(more…)')); ?>
	<?php endif; ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>
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  • Where is your $category variable being defined? Is it a single category being returned? Or an array?

    Thread Starter Alisdairb

    (@alisdairb)

    Hi Josh, sorry I included the wrong code, that was from a previous attempt. I have added the code which i have been using to basically get the latest posts from a specific category however im not experience enough to realize how i can make it so that code only picks up the sticky posts from that category.

    <?php $the_query = new WP_Query( 'category_name=things-to-do&showposts=3' ); ?>
<?php while ($the_query -> have_posts()) : $the_query -> the_post(); ?>
<div class="index-thumb"><?php the_post_thumbnail(array(100,100), array ('class' => 'alignleft1')); ?></div>
<div class="indexblog-title"><a title="<?php the_title(); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
<?php the_excerpt(__('(more…)')); ?>
<?php endwhile;?>

    Okay.. try this:

    <?php 

$args = array(
			'category_name' => 'things-to-do',
			'post__in' => get_option( 'sticky_posts' ),
			'showposts' => '3'
		);

$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );

	while ($the_query -> have_posts()) : $the_query -> the_post(); ?>
        <div class="index-thumb"><?php the_post_thumbnail(array(100,100), array ('class' => 'alignleft1')); ?></div>
        <div class="indexblog-title"><a title="<?php the_title(); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
        <?php the_excerpt(__('(more…)'));
	endwhile;

?>

    Hi Josh!!! ur amazing!!! thnx for the code, some changes in my divs and works very nice.

    best regards!

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