martinshopland

<ul>
<li>Sticky posts are ordered the same way as non-sticky posts.</li>
<li>Sticky posts do not reappear on subsequent pages.</li>
<li>The first page of home will contain exactly the requested number of posts, rather than the requested number of posts plus the number of sticky posts.</li>
<li>Allows more than one page of sticky posts.</li>
</ul>
Simply injects the sticky post IDs into the actual mySQL order by clause, 
causing posts to be ordered by sticky status then by what ever order is 
specified, usually post_date DESC, and not to repeat on subsequent pages. 
I can’t actually figure out why it isn’t done like this by WP, perhaps 
earlier versions of mySQL don’t support this. WP’s default sticky ordering 
craziness is turned off by returning an empty array for the next call to 
get_option(‘sticky_posts’) which happens in WP_Query->get_posts().
There is currently a ticket awaiting review on the WordPress trac system to roll this functionality into the WordPress core: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21986

Mend Sticky Posts

Wordpress's Sticky Posts behaviour is still incomprehensible, let's fix it.

Arjan Olsder

Starting WordPress 5.3, WordPress added an e-mail verification step that will come into action about every six months. This step is to validate if the used e-mail address is still in use. On sites with large amounts of users, this can be a very handy feature. On sites with just one user, it can be considered an unwanted nag. This ultra lightweight plugin switches this feature off.
This is an UltraFast plugin. Meaning there is no settings screen. No database connection. No input / output. It’s just a single line of code.
<h3>Credits</h3>
We thank the WordPress team for introducing these checks in 5.3, knowing there are a lot of usecases where this check is important.
<h3>License</h3>
This file is part of Turn Admin Email Verification Off.
Turn Admin Email Verification Off is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Turn Admin Email Verification Off Off is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Turn Admin Email Verification Off. If not, see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>.

Turn Admin Email Verification Off

Turn Admin Email Verification Off stops WordPress from asking about e-mail verification every six months or so.

Mend Sticky Posts vs Turn Admin Email Verification Off