Introduction

As part of the customization of my site, I want to display only sticky posts on the home page.  On the average I expect to have one sticky post at the time.  This post documents how to modify the TwentyEleven Theme in WordPress 3.2 to achieve this functionality.

Implementation

Visit ThemeFm for a good overview of the TwentyEleven theme. This is really a one liner.  Open the index.php template, and insert the <?php if(!is_sticky() && (is_home() || is_front_page()) ) break;  ?> line just before the get_template_part(…) call.

<?php /* Start the Loop */ ?>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php if(!is_sticky() &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; (is_home() || is_front_page()) ) break;  ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>

This line of code check if the post is not sticky and the home or front page is being display.  If this condition is met it aborts the loop.  This works because WordPress displays all sticky posts first.  That’s it we are done.