11 Responses

1. Carthik

   June 15th, 2005 at 4:09 pm

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   There is this plugin, which should work fine.

   Mark, of WLTC had a sticky plugin/hack - wonder if he’s updated it lately.

   There is also this support thread that talks about a different plugin.

   I suppose Owen should be able to update the plugin to work for 1.5.x, but he may be busy, too.

2. John

   June 15th, 2005 at 4:18 pm

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   Thanks Carthik. I looked at the first plugin but there was supposed to be a readme in the zip file which was missing. It looks like another loop needs to be added. The second hack you suggested needs database changes and other core files altered.

   I can’t believe there is not a drop and load solution for sticky posts. In reality, this should already be a WordPress feature.

3. MacManX

   June 15th, 2005 at 4:38 pm

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   Adhesive v2.1b is compatible with WP v1.5. I can’t think of anything that would have broken it between v1.5 and v1.5.1.2, but Owen no longer supports any of his plugins (unless you ask very nicely). I believe he does tend to use the adhesive functionality from time to time, so if you asked very nicely, I’m sure he might be able to figure out what’s going on.

4. John

   June 15th, 2005 at 5:06 pm

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   I tried Adhesive and it didn’t work. Looking at the WordPress support forums there are many others unable to get it to work with the latest version of WordPress. There are some solutions in the forums and I tried a few but no luck.

5. Orlando

   June 15th, 2005 at 9:15 pm

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   Strange! I have v1.5.1.2 installed and adhesive runs just fine…is there any incompability with another plugin?

6. John

   June 15th, 2005 at 9:45 pm

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   Yes, that could be the case Orlando.

7. Owen

   June 16th, 2005 at 7:39 am

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   Email me. I’d like to know what about it isn’t working.

8. Leonieke

   June 17th, 2005 at 2:32 am

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   I had problems with WP 1.5.1.2 and the adhesive plugin, but in the end I managed to get it to work.
   Unfortunately I cannot remember what I did - perhaps it is as simple as turning off all Textile/MarkDown plugins …

   Good luck!

9. HYPERGURU

   June 18th, 2005 at 3:51 am

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   I just created a custom category, i.e. ’sticky’, and I display posts from the ’sticky’ category where I need them. If you want you could remove the ’sticky’ category from being displayed in the archive.

   Simple, no plug-ins, no configs.

   Ciao,
   Max

10. John

    June 18th, 2005 at 8:13 am

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    Good idea HYPERGURU, thanks for the suggestion.

11. shaunandrews.com

    July 15th, 2006 at 10:12 am

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    Wordpress Sticky Posts…

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    When designing this blog I came up with the idea of having little news flashes that show up for a day a two to announce anything I felt was im…