[wp-hackers] sticky for custom post types

[Guillem Frances]

Steve,

you've probably already considered this, but couldn't you just use one
custom taxonomy with a single term "promoted", then make the client assign
this term to those posts that she wants to see on the on the home page
regardless of their publish date? Or even use an entry in the postmeta
table, and manually create a simple checkbox that appears on the admin
interface of each of your CPTs?

Depending of your requirements, I guess that you might end up having to
build your own query to retrieve the promoted posts plus the most recent
non-promoted ones, or maybe use to simple queries, but that might be
acceptable.

Cheers,
Guillem

P.S. This is not to disagree with your idea, I also think that having sticky
posts for CPT might be really useful ;)

2011/3/5 Steve Taylor <steve at sltaylor.co.uk>

> I was encouraged then disappointed by this ticket:
>
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12702
>
> From a very blog-centric point of view, I appreciate the reason the
> change wasn't implemented.
>
> However, I'm working on a site that has News, Projects, Insights and
> Events. For me, the best approach is to hijack Posts as News (with
> some relabelling), then have Projects, Insights and Events as custom
> post types. (I'm hacking Events so they publish even when set for the
> future, so the publish date can be used as the event date.)
>
> On the home page is a tabbed interface showing the latest two posts of
> each type - and the client needs to be able to manually promote
> certain older posts to appear here if necessary. Surely an ideal
> situation for being able to apply the "sticky" flag to CPTs?
>
> Of course I could have all these as post categories, but I prefer CPTs
> because having a UI for each of them *greatly* simplifies things for
> the client's editors. It's not just about having separate menu items.
> It's also that I create quite a few custom meta boxes for custom
> fields, depending on the post type. I'd have to wait until after the
> user saved a post (and remembered to select the category) to put the
> appropriate boxes in place, if I just used posts with categories.
>
> I don't follow the logic that if CPTs appear on the home page, they
> probably should be posts. It seems anachronistic now that it's very
> common for WP to be running sites other than blogs, where the home
> page is just a list of posts. My situation - giving an overview of the
> latest of all kinds of content, with the ability to "stick" older
> stuff there to promote it - is presumably far from rare. And because
> there was refusal to even allow the option of "sticky" functionality
> for CPTs, I now have to build my own system, do a bunch of extra
> querying, etc. - or hack the core :(
>
> Any chance of this being re-considered?
>
> cheers,
>
> Steve
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