Philip Arthur Moore

Professional Themes

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…
<ul>
<li>Allows you to select which category in which to stick a post</li>
<li>Will display the post on the top of the first page of the archive just like built-in sticky posts</li>
<li>Will only allow you to stick a single post per category</li>
<li>Displays whether or not a post is stuck in a category on the Post Edit dashboard</li>
<li>Provides light styling that should look good in most themes</li>
<li>Is available on each post editor page</li>
<li>Is fully localized and ready for translation</li>
</ul>
For more information or to follow the project, check out the <a href="http://tommcfarlin.com/category-sticky-post/" rel="nofollow ugc">project page</a>.
<h3>Development Information</h3>
Category Sticky Post was built with…
<ul>
<li>The desire to perform the same functionality on my own blog</li>
<li><a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Coding Standards</a></li>
<li>Native WordPress API’s (specifically the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin API</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://incident57.com/codekit/" rel="nofollow ugc">CodeKit</a> using <a href="http://lesscss.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">LESS</a>, <a href="http://www.jslint.com/lint.html" rel="nofollow ugc">JSLint</a>, and <a href="http://jquery.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery</a></li>
<li>Some advice from <a href="http://twitter.com/kovshenin" rel="nofollow ugc">Konstantin Kovshenin</a> on query optimization</li>
<li>Respect for WordPress bloggers everywhere 🙂</li>
</ul>

Category Sticky Post


Does exactly what I need.  Thank you, Tom McFarlin!


Plays well with WP v6.6

Mark a post to be placed at the top of a specified category archive. It's sticky posts specifically for categories.

ammar.shahraki

Blog Post Filter is a plugin that allow the site administrator selects which categories should be shown on the site frontpage. Only posts that are in the selected categories would be shown on the site main loop.
Major features of Blog Post filter include:
<ul>
<li>Simplicity: In contrast with similar plugin this plugin is very simple and easy to use.</li>
<li>Efficiency: The plugin has a minimum processing overhead on the site.</li>
<li>Multilingual: Supports Persian and English admin page translation.</li>
</ul>

Blog Post Filter

in fact I am the publisher of the plugin and it's natural that I rate it the best.
But, indeed it does the work that is expected without adding any complexity. Just install it and select the categories that you would like to appear on the front page.



Simple and effective

Blog Post Filter filters frontpage posts by their categories.

Category Sticky Post vs Blog Post Filter