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show just 4 sticky posts

I have a normal home page with no dynamic content, but a loop to shows sticky posts above the normal loop

<div id="slider">

<?php query_posts(array('post__in'=>get_option('sticky_posts'), 'showposts' => 4 )); ?>

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); $do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID; ?>

<div class="<?php hybrid_entry_class( 'feature' ); ?>">

<?php get_the_image( array( 'custom_key' => array( 'feature' ), 'default_size' => 'medium', 'width' => '200', 'height' => '200', 'image_class' => 'feature' ) ); ?>

<div class="text-box">
<h2 class="slider-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?>
</a></h2>

<div class="entry-summary entry">

<a class="more-link" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php _e('Full Story »', 'news'); ?></a>

</div>
</div>

</div>

<?php endwhile; wp_reset_query(); ?>

</div>

It shows stickys but not just 4, I want the 4 most recent sticky posts to display

Rick Bible | 05/11/10 at 3:30pm | Edit

sticky post

(3) Possible Answers Submitted...

Last edited:
05/11/10
4:04pm

Oleg Butuzov says:

<?php

	query_posts(

		array('post__in'=>get_option('sticky_posts'), 

			'showposts' => 4 , 

			'order' => 'desc', 

			'orderby' =>'date')

		); 

?>

Previous versions of this answer: 05/11/10 at 3:36pm

05/11/10 3:40pm

Oleg Butuzov says:
```
'order' => 'desc' ,

'orderby' =>'date'
```
is a order fields , you can specify yours...

right now it will take 4 most new posts...
05/11/10 3:45pm

Rick Bible says:
none of these work, they work no differently than what I already have... see, if my client has 10 stickys checked, I only want the four most recent. My code, and this code, as well as variations below are still showing all the stickys checked.

05/11/10 3:50pm

Oleg Butuzov says:

	

add_filter('option_posts_per_page', 'total_posts_in_category');

query_posts(

		array('post__in'=>get_option('sticky_posts'), 

			'showposts' => 4 , 

			'order' => 'asc', 

			'orderby' =>'date')

		); 

remove_filter('option_posts_per_page', 'total_posts_in_category');

function total_posts_in_category(){

	return 4;

}

05/11/10 3:55pm

Oleg Butuzov says:

setting 4 for everithing!

	

	add_filter('option_posts_per_page', 'totala_posts_in_category');

	query_posts(

		array(

			'post__in'=>get_option('sticky_posts'), 

			'showposts' => 4 , 

			'order' => 'asc', 

			'orderby' =>'date',

			'posts_per_page'=>4

		)

	); 

		

	remove_filter('option_posts_per_page', 'totala_posts_in_category');

	 

	function totala_posts_in_category(){

		return 4;

	}

05/11/10 3:57pm

Rick Bible says:
No luck, would it be easier to do a tag, say "featured", and show 4 most recent featured tags?

05/11/10 4:00pm

Oleg Butuzov says:

this is finality. and fatality of your problem

<?php

$sticky = get_option('sticky_posts');

rsort( $sticky );

$sticky = array_slice( $sticky, 0, 3);

query_posts( array( 'post__in' => $sticky, 'caller_get_posts' => 1 ) );



if (have_posts()) :

    while (have_posts()) : the_post();

      // code here

    endwhile;

endif;



?>

Last edited:
05/11/10
3:35pm
Utkarsh Kukreti says:
Use
```
'numberposts' => 4
```
Last edited:
05/11/10
3:38pm
Erez S says:
Replace showposts with posts_per_page or numberposts

Previous versions of this answer: 05/11/10 at 3:38pm
- 05/11/10 3:54pm
  
  Erez S says:
  Here is another solution:
```
$sticky=get_option('sticky_posts') ; 

query_posts('p=' . $sticky[0].','.$sticky[1].','.$sticky[2].','.$sticky[3]);

//LOOP
```
  Should work,if not,try to use seperate query_posts for each sticky,and read this for more information:
  http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts#Sticky_Post_Parameters