Mark a post to be placed at the top of a specified category archive. It's sticky posts specifically for categories.
| Author: | Tom McFarlin (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.4.1 |
| WordPress version tested: | 4.4.33 |
| Plugin version: | 2.10.1 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 27-08-2012 |
| Last updated: | 28-11-2017
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 98 |
| Rated by: | 24 |
| Plugin URI: | https://tommcfarlin.com/category-sticky-post/ |
| Total downloads: | 78 504 |
| Active installs: | 3 000+ |
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Category Sticky Post allows you to mark a post to be displayed – or stuck – to the top of each archive page for the specified
category.
Category Sticky Post…
- Allows you to select which category in which to stick a post
- Will display the post on the top of the first page of the archive just like built-in sticky posts
- Will only allow you to stick a single post per category
- Displays whether or not a post is stuck in a category on the Post Edit dashboard
- Provides light styling that should look good in most themes
- Is available on each post editor page
- Is fully localized and ready for translation
For more information or to follow the project, check out the project page.
Development Information
Category Sticky Post was built with…
Screenshots
A post marked as a 'Category Sticky' displaying at the top of an archive page
The new menu item for selecting which in which category to stick the given post
Disabled options show that a category already has a sticky post
The post dashboard indicating which entries are category sticky posts
Installation Instructions
Using The WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Add New’ Plugin Dashboard
- Select
category-sticky-post.zip from your computer
- Upload
- Activate the plugin on the WordPress Plugin Dashboard
Using FTP
- Extract
category-sticky-post.zip to your computer
- Upload the
category-sticky-post directory to your wp-content/plugins directory
- Activate the plugin on the WordPress Plugins dashboard
ChangeLog
2.10.2
- Change plugin authorship.
2.10.1
- Fix to plugin ownership name.
2.10.0
- Changing plugin ownership.
2.9.0
- Adding Serbian language translation (props George Dragojevic)
2.8.0
- WordPress 4.3 Compatibility
- Updating author URLs
- Removing the
disabled functionality that would prevent you from selecting the same
category a post originally had (props marc)
- Removing some unused functions
- Cleaning up some of the PHP
2.7.0
- WordPress 4.2.1 compatibility
- Updating copyright dates
2.6.0
- WordPress 4.0 compatibility
- Checking the main query to avoid conflicts with other plugins that deal with the main query
2.4.0
- Verifying WordPress 3.9 compatibility
2.3.0
- Removing the ability to add the sticky post to Pages (this should not have been possible earlier)
- Verifying WordPress 3.8 compatibility
2.2.0
- Adding Spanish translations (props to Andrew Kurtis)
2.1.1
- Updating the plugin so that the
category-sticky class is applied only on category archive pages (props http://davidpratten.com).
2.1.0
- Updating the plugin to support pages custom post types
- Moving the screenshots to the
/assets/ directory to make the download a bit smaller
2.0.0
- Resolving a bug that marked the category as ‘unstuck’ when updating a post
- Introduced a feature for disabling the category sticky border
- Improving the coding standards of the plugin be separating the class into its own file
- Improving the PHPDoc of the plugin
1.2.1
- Removing the custom.css line in the README file
1.2
- Now posts that belong to multiple categories are properly styled when they are marked as sticky
- Removing some of the styles that were causing posts to look incorrect in certain themes
- Documenting all of the functions that exist in the source code
- Fully removing custom.css support
1.1.2
- Removing the custom.css support as it was causing issues with other plugin upgrades. Will be restored later, if requested.
1.1.1
- Improving support for adding custom.css so that the file is also managed properly during the plugin update process
- Updating localization files
1.1
- Updating function calls to use updated PHP conventions
- Adding a function to dynamically create a custom.css file if one doesn’t exist
- Verifying compatibility with WordPress 3.5
1.0
