Adhesive is a WordPress plugin that allows one to easily mark certain posts as "sticky." Sticky posts always appear at the top of the page when WordPress displays several posts, but if more than one post is sticky, the post with the latest post time will appear topmost.

Adhesive was originally written by Owen Winkler and available at http://www.redalt.com/downloads/. Unfortunately, it is no longer available, and the last version by Owen doesn't play well with WordPress 2.1. So I fixed it and am making Adhesive available here.

Installation/Usage

Simply follow the download link below, unzip the download and drop it into your WordPress plugins directory. Then activate Adhesive via the plugin administration panel.

To make a post sticky, edit it and either check the "Sticky" checkbox located in the right column below "Keep this post private" or in "Custom Fields" add key sticky with a value of 1.

Please note that if you deactivate Adhesive, all posts marked sticky will revert back to regular status. To upgrade this plugin and preserve posts' sticky status, just overwrite the old Adhesive files with the new ones.

Download Adhesive

→ Adhesive 3.4.0 for WordPress 2.6.5. Last updated 29 November 2008. Release notes.

Adhesive has been tested under WordPress 2.6.5 in Firefox 3.0.4, Google Chrome 0.4.154.25, Internet Explorer 7, Opera 9.62 and Safari 3.2.1 running on Windows Vista. If something isn't working right, please leave a comment.

Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism - New York, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.