Title: STICKY POSTS making problems! Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # STICKY POSTS making problems! * [RedIndy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redindy/) * (@redindy) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sticky-posts-making-problems/) * I have been trying to use the option STICKY. But it really seems to have some major problems. Specially if using more than just one “sticky”. * I have no idea why WP starts behaving so strange if more stickies than one are used. What happens is that the number of posts on the front page doesn’t adjust any more after using stickies, * So if you have a setting to show 8 posts and there is a “sticky” on the top, you will have 9 posts on the front page, incl. the “sticky”. Now if you add another post, there will be 10 posts on the page, instead of 8, and so on. * I even had some 12 post on the page while the settings were set to 8! When you take away the “sticky” everything adjusts again as should! * Than also there is the matter of sequence. If you have more stickies, like I had 5 at one time, the stickies start reshuffling themselves and the order changes every time a new post is added. * So I have the suspicion that there is a major bug causing this quirky behavior, but looking in the knowledge base about this, I didn’t find anything about this problem. * So I am hoping someone will be able to direct me to the right information or help me to put this bug under the attention of the developers of WP. * Thanks in advance! * RI. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * (@jdembowski) * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sticky-posts-making-problems/#post-2910379) * > So I have the suspicion that there a major bug causing this quirky behavior, * Doubtful, but you never know. 😉 * If you can provide a link to your site as well as the theme, we might be able to help you sort it out. * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Sticky_Posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Sticky_Posts) * Thread Starter [RedIndy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redindy/) * (@redindy) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sticky-posts-making-problems/#post-2910380) * Thanks for helping, Jan Dembowski! This is [MY SITE](http://www.iedereen.net) Also the stickies you see now don’t show in the right sequence. The second one was posted last and should be on top but whatever I try, it doesn’t want to! But it did when I did this the first time! * RI * Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * (@jdembowski) * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sticky-posts-making-problems/#post-2910386) * You’re using the Parament theme which I’ve just installed on my Crash Test Dummy installation. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/parament](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/parament) * > If you have more stickies, like I had 5 at one time, the stickies start reshuffling > themselves and the order changes every time a new post is added. * I’m not seeing the problem myself. I made a couple of posts sticky, but it’s only sticky on the front page and they display in age order. Once I get to the next page, they only display if they’re on the page. * Try switching to Twenty Eleven and see if the problem occurs there too. I’m not running any plugins on my test install so that may be what’s causing what you are seeing. * Thread Starter [RedIndy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redindy/) * (@redindy) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sticky-posts-making-problems/#post-2910412) * Tried Twenty Eleven, no difference to the problem, same results as far as I could see. Tried some other themes as well but no difference. * [Here](http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/3015/paramentrecomset001.jpg) you can see the advice they gave after doing the Theme Check on Parament. I have no insight into coding so it is all Babberich to me, but maybe it can tell you something. * I didn’t know that this problem can be related to the theme. * I have tried many different settings now, took all the stickies off and disabled all plugins and than put the stickies back again, same problem occurred. Taking off the widgets didn’t help either. * All in all it’s taking a massive amount of time to check all possible options for me, so I think it would be better that someone with more insight to the workings of WP has a look at this. * And maybe it is a known bug and they are working on it already, or at least are aware of it! * I call it a day for now. * Thanks for helping! * RI. * Thread Starter [RedIndy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redindy/) * (@redindy) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sticky-posts-making-problems/#post-2910419) * Seems like Imageshack has problems with the link it gave to show the image in my prev. message so I try to copy the content here again. * RECOMMENDED: No reference to post-thumbnails was found in the theme. If the theme has a thumbnail like functionality, it should be implemented with add_theme_support(‘ post-thumbnails’ )in the functions.php file. * RECOMMENDED: No reference to the_post_thumbnail() was found in the theme. It is recommended that the theme implement this functionality instead of using custom fields for thumbnails. * RECOMMENDED: No reference to add_theme_support( ‘custom-header’, $args ) was found in the theme. It is recommended that the theme implement this functionality if using an image for the header. * RECOMMENDED: No reference to add_theme_support( ‘custom-background’, $args ) was found in the theme. If the theme uses background images or solid colors for the background, then it is recommended that the theme implement this functionality. * RECOMMENDED: No reference to add_editor_style() was found in the theme. It is recommended that the theme implement editor styling, so as to make the editor content match the resulting post output in the theme, for a better user experience. * RECOMMENDED: add_custom_image_header found in the file functions.php. Deprecated since version 3.4. Use add_theme_support( ‘custom-header’, $args ) instead. * Line 22: add_custom_image_header( ‘parament_header_style’, ‘parament_admin_header_st * Line 100: * Referenced via add_custom_image_header() in parament_setup(). * Line 150: * Referenced via add_custom_image_header() in parament_setup(). * RECOMMENDED: add_custom_background found in the file functions.php. Deprecated since version 3.4. Use add_theme_support( ‘custom-background’, $args ) instead. * Line 16: add_custom_background(); * INFO: Possible hard-coded links were found in the file 1footer.php. * Line 10: rel=’generator’>Copyright:www.iedereen.net – 2012 * INFO: Slidecontent180712.php The theme appears to use include or require. If these are being used to include separate sections of a template from independent files, then get_template_part() should be used instead. * Line 8: