Sticky Posts are too aggressive

[prettyboymp]

I don't think the default behavior should be to have sticky posts included every time a query_posts() is used. I realize you can set the 'caller_get_posts' argument to avoid sticky posts from being added, however having to do this everywhere becomes a burden.

What are your thoughts on having the WP class add 'include_sticky' var to the_query if it isn't already set and then not include the sticky posts by default?

[westi]

You can now pass in ignore_sticky_posts

[prettyboymp]

Replying to westi:

You can now pass in ignore_sticky_posts

I understand there are options, but I still don't think that sticky posts should be included in every query call by default. They really only make sense to be included in the main loop, which could easily be added by an argument passed from the WP class, though I understand, we're fighting a backwards compatibility issue at this point.

[jane]

13 months with no comments indicates a lack of community interest/support for the ticket. Closing as wontfix. If re-opening, please include a patch.

[nacin]

I really like this idea. Patch is trivial — it comes down to whether we can get away with breaking this. westi, ryan?

[wonderboymusic]

11950.diff​ breathes some oxygen into this. I am not sure if where I set include_sticky query var in WP::parse_request is appropriate

Moving to 3.7 for discussion. @nacin endorsed this ticket 20 months ago.

[wonderboymusic]

#13365 was marked as a duplicate.

[wonderboymusic]

#14115 was marked as a duplicate.

[wonderboymusic]

#21687 was marked as a duplicate.

[nacin]

Pushing on this.

[philiparthurmoore]

Very big +1 to this. Post counts and layouts are fairly unpredictable at times due to stickies. This small addition would breathe some life into stickies and make things so much easier for predicting behavior.

[philiparthurmoore]

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