Post Glue

Sticky posts for WordPress, improved.

This plugin addresses the following issues and limitations found in the core’s implementation of sticky posts:

• Only the core post type supports this feature.
• Sticky posts are added in front of your homepage’s results, yielding more posts than the configured per-page setting.
• Sticky posts reappear as you navigate further into the archive.
• Sticky posts are prepended to your results when querying specific posts with post__in.
• Difficult to include sticky posts in custom queries.

Some of these issues cause strange behaviour (like when using the REST API) and complicate the creation of custom homepage layouts.

At one point we decided to stop fighting the core and partially reimplemented the feature using custom post fields and meta queries, gi…