Sticky posts showing up when filtering a category the post is not in

Anonymous

#235836

Hi

On this site: https://gymogturn.no/nyheter/

We have stickied a post that shows up first, but when we filter on a category the post is not in, we want it to dissapear.

How to do this?

Trevor

#235883

That would appear to be our standard method of handling ‘sticky’ posts. I will need to refer this to the plugin developer, Ross, to see if there is a way around it.

Anonymous

#236266

Thank you, I’m sure we could do some filter or something.

Ross Moderator

#237362

Hi Sigurd

After scratching my head I managed to figure out the issue.

We perform our search outside of the regular WP_Query, so if you choose a category in our search form, WP doesn’t actually “know” its restrciting to a specific category, because our search does that, so WP appends the stick post…

I’ve managed to come up with some code, that add the WP category to the WP_Query (even though our plugin has already restricted the posts to this category), but now WP also knows that at a category restriction is happening, and excludes the sticky:

add_filter("sf_edit_query_args", "add_wp_category_to_query", 100, 2);
function add_wp_category_to_query($query_args, $sfid){
	
	//if($sfid == 1234){ //you can restrict this behaviour to a search form ID
	
	//get user category selection from the search form (ie, detect which categories have been selected)
	global $searchandfilter;
	$query_data = $searchandfilter->get($sfid)->current_query();
	$query_data_array = $query_data->get_array();
	if(isset($query_data_array['_sft_category'])){
		$category_values = $query_data_array['_sft_category']['active_terms'];
		$current_category_ids = array(); //this will contain all the IDs of the categories that have been selected in the search form
		foreach($category_values as $category){
			array_push($current_category_ids, $category['id']);
		}
		//restrict query to WP category
		$query_args['category__in'] = $current_category_ids;
	}
	//}
	
	return $query_args;
}

As there may be some small overhead when implementing this code, you can uncomment the first if( line, and restrict this to a specific search form / query.

I hope that makes sense & works!

Best

Anonymous

#276810

I have the same issue as the original author but sadly the function @Ross posted isn’t working and the sticky post is still showing despite being “filtered out”.

Did something about the plugin change to make that function no longer work?

Trevor

#276812

Could you contact us through our new support system, and please refer to this forum post in your message?

Anonymous

#276814

Will do, thanks Trevor!

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