Twenty Fourteen: Sticky posts are not displaying consistently

[Robertght]

Quick summary

I encountered a case with someone who wanted to display 6 sticky posts as a grid on the homepage, but they could only see 5.

Steps to reproduce

1. Activate Twenty Fourteen
2. Create several posts. ~10 would be ok
3. Set 6 of them as sticky
4. Make sure the Featured content is set to display a Grid from Customizer 5.. Check the results

What you expected to happen

From my understanding, the sticky posts should show up regardless of what posts are marked as featured.

What actually happened

Sometimes I got 5 posts sometimes I got less in my testing. Quite inconsistent

Context

5453601-zen

Platform (Simple, Atomic, or both?)

Simple, Atomic, Self-hosted

Theme-specific issue?

Twenty Fourteen

Browser, operating system and other notes

No response

Reproducibility

Consistent

Severity

Some (< 50%)

Available workarounds?

Yes, easy to implement

Workaround details

Using the featured tag on those posts might work, but for me the results were inconsistent there too.

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[Robertght]

📌 HOUSEKEEPING

• Labels ✅
• Priority ✅
• Replicable on Core - Yes

📌 SCRUBBING

• Tested on P2 - no
• Tested on Simple ✅
• Tested on AT ✅
• Tested on Self-hosted ✅

📌 FINDINGS/SCREENSHOTS/VIDEO

• Created a trac report here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56343#ticket

📌 ACTIONS

• Transferred to themes