Add sticky feature to administration meta boxes.
As of April 2026, Sticky Postbox is a WordPress post plugin with 20 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Post Type Switcher.
Sticky Postbox is a piece of code written few years ago as exercise to learn how WordPress handles administration meta boxes’s availables statuses (closed, hidden and sortings).
This very lightweight plugin adds the sticky feature to administration meta boxes allowing them to be sticky at top right corner of the browser window.
Only one meta box can be sticky at once, so a new sticky meta box unstick the current one (if there is one).
Once the plugin is installed and activated you can sticky administration meta boxes using sticky icon (it appears on the top right corner of each box).
You can use define following constants in your wp-config.php file.
STICKY_POSTBOX_DEBUG
Turn on debug messages (also WP_DEBUG h…
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 6.0.11 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
For plugin changelog, please see the Releases page on GitHub.
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