Comments on: Using Conditionals with WordPress 2.7 Sticky Posts

By: Dave from The Longest Way Home

Dave from The Longest Way Home — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:42:36 +0000

Small suggestion for some of the great tips you have here. Maybe the series plugin?

Or just inserting some links to tie them all together. Or even YARRP.

Had to search a while to link all you sticky posts together :)

Great tips and a walk through.
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By: Trisha

Trisha — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:56:48 +0000

you are a saint! James Whittakers code was right on the money for my skill level. that one is super versatile! the only thing I did to get it working on an index page, was to remove the category (etc) from query_posts… and now I can make killer category feeds. such good stuff. THANK YOU!!!! I still like your sticky code for the SEO theme, but this is giving me other ideas. too…many…projects :)
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By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:17:14 +0000

Hi Trisha – Thanks!

The first post can be styled differently. Here are a couple of articles I located on the subject.

http://perishablepress.com/press/2009/12/01/stupid-wordpress-tricks/#swt_14

http://adambrown.info/b/widgets/easy-php-tutorial-for-wordpress-users/first-post-different-from-the-rest/

http://jameswhittaker.com/journal/8-top-tips-for-wordpress-theme-development/

By: Trisha

Trisha — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:48:19 +0000

Im glad it does! Im building a free theme, trying to learn php by doing. Your code made it really look nice. Check it out (gave you a shout out too) http://drlab.digitalrenewal.com/SEOtheme/
Finally got the ‘get first image’ code working. Man that was tough. Hopefully with 2.9 thumbnails it will be easier.

I wondered, if you can totally redesign a sticky post, can you redesign the most recent post in a similar fashion? I looked in the codex and searched google but couldnt figure it out. Have you ever done it?

I love your portfolio btw!
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By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:42:46 +0000

Hi Trisha – Thanks! That’s great. I hadn’t tested this in 2.9 – I guess I was assuming it would still work. :-)

By: Trisha

Trisha — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:21:57 +0000

holy crap i did it! :) every time i think i really must learn php, some lovely person comes along to teach me exactly what I need to know. This is great, still working in 2.9 as well. THANKS! .-= Trisha´s last blog ..Different Styles by Category =-.

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:57:30 +0000

Hi Tenny – Thanks! I’m glad it worked out for you.

By: Tenny

Tenny — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:15:07 +0000

Thank you for the clear and easy to follow tutorial. This helped me accomplish exactly what I was trying to do!

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:47:55 +0000

Hi Jayme – I think he meant dangerous for someone
who doesn’t know what they are doing because they will
mess up the files but maybe I misread that. :-)

By: Jayme

Jayme — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:05:35 +0000

Yes. I used your code to take out all title and date/time info, then put the title "What's new?"back into the post itself after some line breaks (because the title was overlapping with the header in an ugly way). Works perfectly! I'm using the same technique on my personal blog. I did make a copy of the 'original' before messing around with it, just in case. Back up, back up, back up! I disagree with the commenter who felt that modifying the main index template is 'dangerous'. I find it's far more dangerous to modify code in the core files of WordPress. But whatever works! Thanks again for your help :-) Jayme´s last blog post - Lesson #2