Bug in Advanced Posts is back
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There was a bug that was fixed about a month ago where sticky posts where brought into the advanced post query EVEN if the category tag was not included. The bug is now back.
The page in question is only for the category of “Prognostication” and is now bringing in sticky posts from other pages and categories.
Can this please be fixed?
The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]
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This came out last year after an update and is now back. Looking for a fix that will last ;-) "Sergiu Radu (CreativeThemes) Dec 25, 2023, 09:30 GMT+2 Hello Peter, Yes, you are right the issue was introduced in the last update but it was actually caused by WordPress sticky posts logic. We reworked a little bit how sticky posts are outputted in frontend because a lot of users requested for this feature but seems on some specific setups this was not working very well because of the WordPress logic. So, we had to add some more checks in order to prevent this weird behavior. I am glad everything works fine now. And like I already mentioned, there is no need to worry, we are here always and are ready to help with all problems. Wish you all the best and have a wonderful Holiday Season among your loved ones
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Sergiu."@pmabraham We had an internal discussion about this case and honestly the way the sticky posts behave now is correct, just like my colleague Eduard told you. Can you please explain why you think this is a bug? Just because something isn’t behaving in a way that you don’t expect it doesn’t mean that it’s also a fault. That is why we provide options everywhere — so you can adjust everything to your needs. Why can’t you just use the option to disable the sticky posts from the “Advanced Posts” block?
We really don’t understand why you can’t use the option. Please explain your use case in more details, maybe we are all missing an important point in your use case here.
Thank you and looking forward to hear back from you.
Best,
Andrei@pmabraham yes, I totally understand you but things are not working like that. Just because you are pulling posts from a category (that is, you’re modifying the underlying taxonomy query) it doesn’t mean that sticky posts should be disabled too right away. Please understand, the Advanced Posts block covers a very wide range of use cases and automatically hiding the sticky posts just because you changed something in the query isn’t right.
We have some customers that do need the sticky posts to appear at the top when they’re pulling some posts from a category. For them, the sticky posts are important posts that they want to have at the top.
Can you see the contradiction here?
Our job here is to make unopinionated tools that allow you to get your job done. And to solve this contradiction, we introduced this option that allows you to decide, on a block my block basis, whether to display sticky posts or not: https://share.cleanshot.com/fhzj9hpw
Did you try to switch this option to “Exclude”? It’s 2 clicks away and your problem will be gone.
Please try to put yourself in our position. I will repeat myself: just because something doesn’t behave the way you expect it too, it doesn’t mean it’s a bug. That’s why we have options for.
I hope this helps.
Correct, IF the the stick IS part of the category. The first two posts ARE NOT part of the “Prognostication” category. Is there a reason why you believe ALL sticky posts should be pulled IF THEY ARE NOT a part of the category being pulled?
Not correct. Sticky posts are just sticky. Not sticky per category. And yes — some people do need that, like I said already.
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I don’t want to exclude the category of the other posts because there is a potential that a nutrition post will be part of “Prognostication” and an about hospice post will be part of the “Prognostication” category.
You don’t have to exclude the category, you have to exclude the sticky posts from your block. Did you try to do it?
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This is a bug because I ONLY asked for posts from the “Prognostication” category . I didn’t ask for any other posts from any other category to be pulled. I should not have to exclude what should not already be present because the first two posts are NOT part of the “Prognostication” category!
Again, this is not correct. Sticky posts are not being passed through the query and no filtering is performed on them. Sticky posts are just prepended at the beginning of the 1st page and nothing more. For that reasons, this is not a bug.
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Really, we complicate things more than we should. Why can’t you change the mentioned option? Again, did you try it?
Also, again, the “Query Loop” block from the core WP works exactly the same way, just like Eduard showed you. You have the option to control whether to show or not the sticky posts and their display isn’t affected by pulling or not posts from a category.
The caveat of excluding sticky posts when I ONLY want the category posts then gets the question of what happens when a sticky post is a part of the category and all I want are the sticky posts for that category only.
This is not how sticky posts work and for this case you should not even use the sticky posts feature. Such a use case can only be implemented with custom code. If you need it, we can give you an example on how to do it.
There is such thing as “sticky posts only from the current category”. Sticky posts are global.
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