Description
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…
- The desire to perform the same functionality on my own blog
- WordPress Coding Standards
- Native WordPress API’s (specifically the Plugin API)
- CodeKit using LESS, JSLint, and jQuery
- Some advice from Konstantin Kovshenin on query optimization
- Respect for WordPress bloggers everywhere 🙂
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
Using The WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Add New’ Plugin Dashboard
- Select
category-sticky-post.zipfrom your computer - Upload
- Activate the plugin on the WordPress Plugin Dashboard
Using FTP
- Extract
category-sticky-post.zipto your computer - Upload the
category-sticky-postdirectory to yourwp-content/pluginsdirectory - Activate the plugin on the WordPress Plugins dashboard
FAQ
- Installation Instructions
-
Using The WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Add New’ Plugin Dashboard
- Select
category-sticky-post.zipfrom your computer - Upload
- Activate the plugin on the WordPress Plugin Dashboard
Using FTP
- Extract
category-sticky-post.zipto your computer - Upload the
category-sticky-postdirectory to yourwp-content/pluginsdirectory - Activate the plugin on the WordPress Plugins dashboard
Reviews
July 20, 2024
Does exactly what I need. Thank you, Tom McFarlin!
June 17, 2022
thanks for a solid plugin. 🙂
February 11, 2022
thank you for great developer
July 19, 2021
I really needed this, and WOW! it works like a charm with WP 5.7.2
June 6, 2020
Once upon a time i applied this useful plugin. Now the plugin search did not show it on my new wordpress site. Found it, and installed other way. And still works.
Thank you!
May 5, 2020
I am actively using this plugin on Wordpress 5.4 and it works perfectly.
Contributors & Developers
“Category Sticky Post” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
Translate “Category Sticky Post” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Change log
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
disabledfunctionality 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-stickyclass 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
- Initial release