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.

This Related Posts Plugin for WordPress displays links to a given number of Posts that are related to the current post(s) by Tags or Categories. It can Automatically add links to Related Posts at the bottom of every Post or you can drop the Widget on your sidebar.
Settings: Excluding posts, categories, and tags; section heading; number of links; display post date; and excerpts.

EZ Related Posts Footer Links and Widget

Display a linked list of related Posts by Tags or Categories at the bottom of every post or on the sidebar. Options to show Post Date and Excerpts.

Category Sticky Post vs EZ Related Posts Footer Links and Widget