Alex

This plugin ensures that there is only one sticky post published to the site. When a new sticky post is published, previous the ‘sticky’ flag is removed from any other posts, so they will no longer appear at the top of your page.
<h3>Important Notes</h3>
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<li>I adapted code initially found at http://craiget.com/one-sticky-post-in-wordpress/ Thanks to Craige for posting it! Also, Devin Price (http://wptheming.com/) was immensely helpful as I knocked out a couple of issues regarding scheduled sticky posts.</li>
<li>The first time you publish a sticky post after enabling this plugin, any and all other sticky posts will be changed to not-sticky. There is not a way to automatically reverse this decision, nor is their a log of which posts were changed.</li>
<li>This plugin has not been tested with versions of WordPress prior to 4.0.</li>
<li>Do not use this plugin if you are using another to manage per-category sticky posts. It has not been tested with that setup, and it will most likely mark all of those posts as non-sticky.</li>
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There Can Be Only One

Ensures that there is only one published sticky post on the site at any given time.

Jonathan Desrosiers

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Aaron Ware

The plugin displays a checkbox in the publish meta box to feature a post. The checkbox only appears on admin selected post types which can be selected in the Settings->Writing screen.
When a post is designated as featured:
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<li>It receives ‘featured’ and <code>featured-{$posttype}</code> classes via the post_class filter.</li>
<li>Shows featured posts as such in the post type’s admin screen</li>
<li>Assigns a post a hidden taxonomy term (featured) that can easily be queried.</li>
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Note: For the plugin to work on attachments, you must be using 3.5 or above. All other features will work on 3.1.0 and up.

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x-release-please-start-version Stable tag: 3.0.3 x-release-please-end License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.

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