Brian Zeligson

<p>After installing and activating, there will be a Category Sticky meta box on the Edit Post page. Add categories where you want the post you’re editing to be sticky and update the post, and you’re done.</p>
<p>When displayed as sticky posts in a category listing, posts will have a ‘category_sticky_post’ class added to them for additional styling.</p>
<p>Note that this plugin uses the “the_posts” filter. This means you can set a post sticky for a category that it doesn’t belong to, and it will show on that category when the archive is viewed.</p>
<p>Sidebar widgets will also reflect the sticky order when an archive is being viewed.</p>
<p>For help or other plugins, find me at http://www.workinginboxershorts.com</p>


WP Category Sticky Posts

Allows you to set Sticky posts for individual category archives.

Andrew Norcross

Steve Grunwell

Liquid Web

<p>Sticky Tax enables posts to be made “sticky” within a specific category or tag. Ideal for cornerstone content or important stories, Sticky Tax lets blogs maintain chronological post archives, while keeping the most important content at the top of the list.</p>
<h3>Why might I want this?</h3>
<p>Let’s imagine Chris, a long-time blogger with lots of traffic coming to his site. He’s worked hard to categorize all of his content, but there are a few posts that he wants to make sure are the first thing people see when they hit a category landing page.</p>
<p>Using WordPress’ default behavior, these important pieces of content will eventually get lost behind pagination, just because they’re not the newest posts in the category.</p>
<p>With Sticky Tax, Chris can highlight the most important posts in a category, whether they were written last week or last year!</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>After installing and activating Sticky Tax, a new “Promote Post” meta box will appear on the post edit screen, with a list of terms for any public taxonomies registered on your site.</p>
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<h3>On the front-end</h3>
<p>archive. Each sticky post even gets a <code>.sticky-tax</code> class added to it, enabling you to apply custom styling for your sticky content!</p></p>


Sticky Tax

Make posts sticky within the context of a single category, tag, or custom taxonomy term.

WP Category Sticky Posts vs Sticky Tax