Reply To: Display Featured Items First

• Jilli

• November 29, 2021 at 10:14 pm

You should use php’s usort. The code below:

1. creates a function that grabs the featured post’s ID (set in a custom field assigned to the posts page)
2. checks posts in the query and compares two at a time, moving $post_a to the front if its ID matches the featured post ID.

usort( $wp_query->posts, function ( $post_a, $post_b ) {
    
    $featured = get_field('featured_post', $page)[0];

    $a = $post_a->ID == $featured;
    $b = $post_b->ID == $featured;

    if ( !$a && !$b ) { // both false
        return 0;
    }
    return ( $a ) ? - 1 : 1;
} );