milet22

thank you jordiromkema and nathan!

nathan’s definite guide to sticky posts has been invaluable, and jordironmkema, the post_not_in code elegantly replaces a hacked block of code.

Thanks!

Thanks so much for your help, stvwlf!

In case anyone needs to do this, I modified the code from here for multiple posts.

$post_limit_per_cat = 5;

$post_ids = array(0);
foreach( array(7) as $cat_id ) {
        if ( $posts = get_posts(array('cat' => $cat_id, 'showposts' => $post_limit_per_cat)) ) {
		$post_current_count = 0;

                while( (count($posts) > 0) AND ($post_current_count < $post_limit_per_cat) ) {
	                $first = array_shift($posts);
	                $post_ids[] = $first->ID;
	                $post_current_count++;
                }
        }
}
query_posts(array('post__in' => $post_ids));

stvwlf, thanks for code suggestion–it is a good place to start indeed.

I know this is a beginner question, but where does that go in the index.php file and does it replace something already in there?

Thanks!