I’m setting up a site where the concept is that I have posts in multiple different categories, and I’d like each Category Archive page to display two columns: a left column that shows exactly 1 (stickied) post essentially explaining the category, and a right column that shows the excerpts from the X (say, 3) most recent non-sticked posts in the category.
The problem that I’m running into is that if I leave “Inherit query from template” *on*, then I don’t have the ability I need to set things like “Sticky Posts” to include/exclude/only, or to set a number of posts to display. If I turn “Inherit query from template” *off*, I get the granularity I need, but I also lose the ability to filter by category. That is…. [http://example.com/category/foo](http://example.com/category/foo) shows me the excerpts from posts in category foo as well as bar.
Does anyone have any advice for me?
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