NO BUG: Show sticky posts for a single term in a query loop

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i have a page that I am only including 1 term (for a standard blog post - the term is a custom taxonomy).
The issue I am having is that if I have sticky posts in that term. The sticky posts are not moving to the front.

Example: I am showing 15 most recent posts for that term. BUT I also have 3 sticky posts that have that term attached to them. The sticky posts are not being shown at the front of the query loop - in fact they are ignored if there are not within the first 15 posts for that term.
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Is this a bug?

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Hi,

so, let’s test something. If you enable one of the default themes (Twenty Twenty-Four or similar), and then you got to that term archive page, are the sticky posts on the top?

Matej

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its not a term archive page so I don’t thnk it would… it just. a query loop on a service page

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Hi @dsgadmin,

sorry, I thought it was a main query for the term.

But, saying that, it’s just WP behavior, and honestly, I don’t know why. When you do a custom query with a “tax_query”, “cat” or similar, it will cause WP_Query::is_home to be false. And if this is false, it does not include sticky posts, regardless of the ignore_sticky_posts option.

I’m not sure why it’s that, but that’s how it works. You can refer to the 3501 line here, if you want to check it :slight_smile: WP_Query – Class | Developer.WordPress.org

I’ll mark the topic as no bug because of that.
Matej

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Ensure Sticky Posts are Assigned Correctly

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to my knowledge they are set correclty

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understood… thank you for confirming this.

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