Change sticky status of posts from phpMyAdmin

Question

I have many sticky posts in my database. Is there any SQL function which I could use from phpMyAdmin to change (remove) sticky status of posts, if post is sticky to change it to not sicky.

Answer 1

The sticky posts info is stored in the sticky_posts option in the options table.

It's stored as serialized array e.g. a:2:{i:0;i:1272;i:1;i:1995;}

You can modify it via the Options API but there's a way to bulk edit posts in the backend:

1. Select the Sticky view:

2. Select all sticky posts and apply the bulk Edit action:

3. Make them non-sticky:

and press update.