[Request] Don't ignore Sticky Posts within Blog Posts Block

[zdenys]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Sticky posts are displayed at the very top of blog posts page by design. When using Blog Posts Block these sticky posts are ignored.

Describe the solution you'd like

• Add the logic not to ignore the sticky posts and display them at the very top of the Blog Posts block for the feature parity OR
• Add an option (checkbox/toggle) to display sticky posts at the top somewhere in the block settings

Additional context

• The initial discussion happened here:

  • https://github.com/Automattic/newspack-blocks/issues/1217#issuecomment-1680725221

• ignore_sticky_posts seems to be always true (https://github.com/Automattic/newspack-blocks/blob/master/includes/class-newspack-blocks.php#L645)

[cuemarie]

📌 ACTIONS

• Feature request kept

[kingsleyinfo]

I just came across an interaction that the lack of this feature surfaced. 6810979-zd-a8c

[jp-imagines]

Came across another instance of this here: 7614084-zd-a8c Confusion was created because "stickied" posts weren't displaying on their (FSE) homepage at all when using this block.

[upwardmomentum84]

Another instance of this here: 7608497-zd-a8c