Sticky Post in Query Loop

Hi there,

i believe that is the normal behaviour of a sticky post, WordPress doesn’t remove the original post from the loop

GB simple respects what WP post does with Sticky Posts. Which is to place a copy of the post at the top of the query. You can see this in a standard archive on a WP theme.

Its tricky but you could try this :

Add this PHP Snippet to your site:

add_filter( 'generateblocks_query_loop_args', function( $query_args, $attributes ) {
    $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    $query_string = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY);
    parse_str($query_string, $query_params);
    $last_param_value = end($query_params);
	
    // check URL for page query
    // find the block with my-class-name
    if (        
        $last_param_value > 1 &&
        ! empty( $attributes['className'] ) &&
        strpos( $attributes['className'], 'has-sticky' ) !== false &&
        ! is_admin()
    ) {
		var_dump('shit');
        // get the sticky posts
        $sticky_posts = get_option( 'sticky_posts' );
        // exclude the sticky posts
        return array_merge( $query_args, array(
            'post__not_in' => $sticky_posts,
        ) );
    }

    return $query_args;
}, 10, 2 );

Then select the Grid Block inside the Query Loop and give it an Advanced > Additional CSS Class of: has-sticky

The code will check the URL for its last parameter and if its greater than 1 it should pass the $sticky_posts into the query loops post__not_in param.

It may work.

Let me know

Unfortunately i do not have a solution for this today.

What you’re seeing is the expected behaviour. WordPress core doesn’t remove the original post from the loop. You will see the same result in a core WP Themes archive pages, and in the core Query Loop block.

The code i provided above, worked on one of my installs, but the conditional checks aren’t very robust and would most likely fail if there are more than one query loop on the page. And therefore not a viable solution.

I am not sure its possible that we can change this behaviour, but i will note it as possible future feature.

Today, if you want to use Sticky Posts as a feature post and avoid the duplicate, then you would need to use 2 x Query Loops. Loop 1 = just the sticky post, Loop 2 = all posts excluding stickies. You of course would need to change your design to accommodate that change.