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

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