How to Display the Latest Sticky Posts in WordPress

WordPress has this very cool feature called stick posts. When you make a post sticky, it shows up above your new posts, but only if your theme is set to be that way. In this tutorial we will show you a trick that will let you display latest sticky posts anywhere in your WordPress theme.

Assuming that you have already created a custom page template and/or already have The Loop ready, paste the following code before the loop.

<?php
/* Get all sticky posts */
$sticky = get_option( 'sticky_posts' );

/* Sort the stickies with the newest ones at the top */
rsort( $sticky );

/* Get the 5 newest stickies (change 5 for a different number) */
$sticky = array_slice( $sticky, 0, 5 );

/* Query sticky posts */
query_posts( array( 'post__in' => $sticky, 'caller_get_posts' => 1 ) );
?>

This code can very well be used in featured slider, or any other advanced feature that you would like to display on your site. This snippet is mostly geared toward a WordPress site that has a custom homepage or a magazine style look.

The credit to this code goes to Justin Tadlock and partially to Nathan Rice for coming up with the array slice solution.