Category Sticky Post vs Flexible Posts Widget

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… Allows you to select which category in which to stick a post Will display the post on the top of the first page of the archive just like built-in sticky posts Will only allow you to stick a single post per category Displays whether or not a post is stuck in a category on the Post Edit dashboard Provides light styling that should look good in most themes Is available on each post editor page Is fully localized and ready for translation For more information or to follow the project, check out the project page. Development Information Category Sticky Post was built with… The desire to perform the same functionality on my own blog WordPress Coding Standards Native WordPress API’s (specifically the Plugin API) CodeKit using LESS, JSLint, and jQuery Some advice from Konstantin Kovshenin on query optimization Respect for WordPress bloggers everywhere 🙂

The default Recent Posts widget is exceptionally basic. I always find myself in need of a way to easily display a selection of posts from any combination post type or taxonomy. Hence, Flexible Posts Widget. Flexible Posts Widget (FPW) is more than just a simple alternative to the default Recent Posts widget. With many per-instance options it is highly customizable and allows advanced users to display the resulting posts virtually any way imaginable. Features & options Customizable widget title Get posts by post type(s) and/or taxonomy & term(s) or directly by a list of post IDs. Control the number of posts displayed and the number of posts to offset. Option to display the post feature image. Select the post feature image size to display from existing image sizes: thumbnail, medium, large, post-thumbnail or any size defined by the current theme. Order posts by: date, modified date, ID, title, menu order, random, Post ID Order; and sort posts: ascending or descending. Each widget’s output can be customized by user-defined templates added to the current theme folder. Multi Language support. Compatible with WPML and PolyLang for sure. Not tested with other multi-language plugins, but it should work. Plugin Hooks Flexible posts widget currently has two public hooks: Filter: dpe_fpw_args allows filtering the query vars before submitting the widget posts query. Filter: dpe_fpw_template_{$template_name} filters the template file path used to display the widget output. Future updates & feature requests list Use search box instead of ID text field for post id’s Shortcode functionality. Get posts by Author. Filter out the post currently being viewed. Get posts from the same archive (term/post type/etc). Limit results by a time period.