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$postCount = 0;

$page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

query_posts( 'paged=$page&post_per_page=-1&cat=' . get_query_var('cat') );

while (have_posts()) { the_post();

if( $postcount == 0 ) { /* sticky post stuff goes here */ }

else { /* rest of the loop goes here */ }

$postcount ++;

query_posts('paged=$page&post_per_page=-1&cat=4,' . get_query_var('cat'));

Justine | 06/12/10 at 4:28am Edit

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• 
  Last edited:
  06/12/10
  4:35am
  Oleg Butuzov says:

  cate array values better to use array keys..
  like
  
  

  query_posts(array('category__in'= > array(4, get_query_var('cat'))));

  
  
  sticky
  
  

  query_posts(
  
  	array(
  
  		'category__in' => array(4, get_query_var('cat')),
  
  		'post__in' 	   => get_option("sticky")
  
  	)
  
  );

  
  
  not sure as for true is sticky option calls stliky but you can change it.

  Previous versions of this answer: 06/12/10 at 4:35am

  • 06/12/10 4:44am
    
    Justine says:

    Neither of these worked, it keeps displaying the latest post from category 4 instead of the sticky one.

• 
  Last edited:
  06/12/10
  4:34am
  Utkarsh Kukreti says:

  What is the code inside
  
  

   /* sticky post stuff goes here */

  • 06/12/10 4:37am
    
    Justine says:

    Hi Utkarsh,
    
    This is the whole block of code: http://pastie.org/1001644

  • 06/12/10 5:09am
    
    Utkarsh Kukreti says:

    query_posts(array(
    
    		'cat' => 4,
    
    		'post__in' 	   => get_option('sticky_posts')
    
    	));
    
    

  • 06/12/10 5:16am
    
    Justine says:

    This managed to return the sticky from a category 4. Thanks.
    
    But the problem is, the whole block of code is a loop for all the posts in this category. The first post (which should be the sticky) is displayed in the "lead" div, then goes a couple of next posts, then the list of even more posts, all in one loop.
    
    You can see demo of this theme here. All the posts on this page (featured, recent posts, older posts) are returned using just one loop.
    
    So if I use your query, I will only get the sticky post in it.

• 
  Last edited:
  06/16/10
  3:46pm
  Xavier Faraudo says:

  I'd suggest that you use three "queries": one for sticky posts, other for the category, then merge both in another one.
  
  Let's start with:
  

  
  
  $post_ids = array();
  
  $cat_posts = get_posts( 'paged=$page&posts_per_page=-1&cat=' . get_query_var('cat') );
  
  if( $cat_posts ){
  
  foreach( $cat_posts as $cat_post ){
  
  $post_ids[] = $cat_post->ID;
  
  };
  
  };
  
  

  
  We got here all the post ids for those in cat in the array. Now we'll add the stickies:
  

  
  
  $stickies = get_posts ( array(  'cat' => get_query_var('cat') ,'post__in' 	   => get_option("sticky") , 'posts_per_page' => -1 ) );
  
  if( $stickies ){ foreach( $stickies as $sticky ){
  
  $post_ids[] = $sticky->ID;
  
  }; };
  
  

  
  Now, all the post ids are in the array. We can query_posts (and populate $wp_query, and all those things that query_posts does which get_posts doesn't).
  

  
  
  $posts = query_posts( array( 'post__in' => $post_ids ) );
  
  

  
  Please note that this can be specially useful in combination with rewind_posts(). You can get all the posts (ordered) which comply the criteria, loop them and do something only to, say, stickies, and then rewind_posts() and do something different checking if posts are not stickies, and/or are in a given category, etc.
  
  

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