Philip Arthur Moore

Professional Themes

<p>Category Sticky Post allows you to mark a post to be displayed – or stuck – to the top of each archive page for the specified<br />
category.</p>
<p>Category Sticky Post…</p>
<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>
<p>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>.</p>
<h3>Development Information</h3>
<p>Category Sticky Post was built with…</p>
<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.

GrandSlambert

<p>Display posts from selected taxonomies in your sidebars. Multiple formats including featured images are possible.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display posts with additional options from any or all entries in a slected taxonomy in your sidebars.</li>
<li>Option to display on posts in the same categories as the current post on single post pages.</li>
<li>Fully templated – add more templates in your own theme and select them in your widgets. Includes four templates.</li>
<li>Creates two new image sizes for use in widgets – set the sizes on the options screen.</li>
<li>Use the category title or write your own title, even link the title to the category (if one selected).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<p>This plugin includes the following translations. Translations listed with no translator were created by the plugin developer using Google Translate. If you can improve these, you can get your name listed here!</p>
<ul>
<li>German</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
</ul>


Pretty Sidebar Categories

Display posts from selected taxonomies in your sidebars. Multiple formats including featured images are possible.

Category Sticky Post vs Pretty Sidebar Categories