I am working on a wordpress code as shown below in which the modified post displays at the top.

$temp_args = [
    'post_type' => array('current-channel', 'post', 'current-episodes'),
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'orderby' => array(
        'feat_yes' => 'ASC',
        'post_type' => 'ASC',
        'modified' => 'DESC',
        'date' => 'DESC'),
    'posts_per_page' => $data->{"no_articles_" . ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE},
    'tax_query' => [
        [
            'taxonomy' => 'category',
            'field' => 'term_id',
            'terms' => $cat_today,
        ],
    ],

];
$q = new WP_Query($temp_args);

At this moment, order by is done in the following way:

'orderby' => array(
    'feat_yes' => 'ASC',
    'post_type' => 'ASC',
    'modified' => 'DESC',
    'date' => 'DESC'),  

Problem Statement:

I am wondering what changes I should make in the code above so that sticky posts are displayed at the top before the regular post.

The order should be in a way that sticky post should be always at the top and then all the regular post

I am working on a wordpress code as shown below in which the modified post displays at the top.

$temp_args = [
    'post_type' => array('current-channel', 'post', 'current-episodes'),
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'orderby' => array(
        'feat_yes' => 'ASC',
        'post_type' => 'ASC',
        'modified' => 'DESC',
        'date' => 'DESC'),
    'posts_per_page' => $data->{"no_articles_" . ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE},
    'tax_query' => [
        [
            'taxonomy' => 'category',
            'field' => 'term_id',
            'terms' => $cat_today,
        ],
    ],

];
$q = new WP_Query($temp_args);

At this moment, order by is done in the following way:

'orderby' => array(
    'feat_yes' => 'ASC',
    'post_type' => 'ASC',
    'modified' => 'DESC',
    'date' => 'DESC'),  

Problem Statement:

I am wondering what changes I should make in the code above so that sticky posts are displayed at the top before the regular post.

The order should be in a way that sticky post should be always at the top and then all the regular post

• php
• wp-query
• loop
• sticky-post

1 Answer 1

I think you may need to add the feat_yes as a meta_key

$temp_args = [
    'post_type' => array('current-channel', 'post', 'current-episodes'),
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'meta_key' => 'feat_yes',
    'orderby' => array(
        'meta_value_num' => 'ASC', /* or 'meta_value' */
        'post_type' => 'ASC',
        'modified' => 'DESC',
        'date' => 'DESC'),
    'posts_per_page' => $data->{"no_articles_" . ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE},
    'tax_query' => [
        [
            'taxonomy' => 'category',
            'field' => 'term_id',
            'terms' => $cat_today,
        ],
    ],

];
$q = new WP_Query($temp_args);

Here's a few relevant links:

• https://codex.wordpress/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters
• WP_Query - Order results by meta value
• Custom query with orderby meta_value of custom field