WP_Query, author_name, and sticky posts

[eryanv]

I have a template which is being used as my front page on WP 2.9.2. In this template I setup my loop with the following code:

$postresults = new WP_Query();
$postresults->query("author_name=frontpage&post_types=post&post_status=publish");
while($postresults->have_posts()) { $postresults->the_post(); ?>
// etc...

I am not using the "caller_get_posts=1" option, but my sticky posts are still showing up in order with other posts rather than at the beginning. If I remove the "author_name=frontpage" the sticky posts will move back to the first items, however I am stuck with posts by authors I do not want. Using "author=2" results in the same behavior as using "author_name".

Another sticky post related #12702

Please explain what you expect to happen instead.

Today I also came into this problem. On our website there are several sticky posts.

I tried to do custom loop (posts on page) with WP_Query(). But there were not only posts related to arguments, but also all sticky posts. I found caller_get_posts and set it true and everything was OK. But it is not very user-friendly solution, for all my loops I have to add this parameter... Maybe ignoring sticky posts for custom loops? But on the other side I understand its current behaviour... But for many users it is not very clear on the first look...

Maybe related: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14825

Stickies will only show up if the query does NOT meet any of these conditions:

$this->is_singular 
|| $this->is_archive 
|| $this->is_search 
|| $this->is_feed 
|| $this->is_trackback 
|| $this->is_404 
|| $this->is_admin 
|| $this->is_comments_popup 
|| $this->is_robots

This is unbelievably confusing since is_archive expands to:

$this->is_post_type_archive 
|| $this->is_date 
|| $this->is_author 
|| $this->is_category 
|| $this->is_tag
|| $this->is_tax

Once you start adding query parameters, some of these condition get met immediately.