There Can Be Only One
Ensures that there is only one published sticky post on the site at any given time.
5(1 reviews)
·40 active installs·Updated 11 years agoAs of April 2026, There Can Be Only One is a WordPress posts plugin with 40 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
5/51 reviews
40active installs
3.0K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
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.
Important Notes
- 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.
- 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.
- This plugin has not been tested with versions of Wor…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.1.42 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.0
- A quick fix that resolved an issue where posts that were made sticky after they were published weren’t caught, causing more than one post to be set to sticky. Thanks to Jeff Chandler for surfacing this issue.
- I feel pretty good about the state of the plugin, so bumping it to a full 1.0 release
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