Sticky Articles

[hobbes]

I was wondering if it was possible to make an article sticky. What I mean is when the user sees the front page- the newest stories are displayed under a sticky static story.

thanks!

[dollars5]

There is no off-the-shelf implementation for this, but a simple suggestion is to use the extra_fields (link_fields I guess) to store the sticky status and in you tpl file modify to query the fields that has this extra field set first before a normal query (you should also modify it to filter off sticky links)

Just a suggestion.

[Juju66]

:( I was looking for this... I'll try to see in the extra_fields but i haven't good knowledge in developping...

[newsome]

Hello.

Has anyone figured this out, yet? If so, what are the step-by-step instructions?

Thanks in advance.

[modernste]

you could always implement the featured story mod like I have on my site terrafite / Popular you could probably add as many of those as you like, although it's a workaround, it's a start.

[chuckroast]

Originally Posted by newsome

Hello.

Has anyone figured this out, yet? If so, what are the step-by-step instructions?

Thanks in advance.

see http://forums.pligg.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=50

[newsome]

Thanks for the info folks. Just one more question:

Can I feature e.g. Top 5 stories or just one with this mod?

Again, thanks in advance.

[modernste]

take a look at terrafite / Popular all I did was make a copy of the php code in the featured_story_index.tpl and paste it underneath the other. I would imagine you can do this for any number of articles you want to be sticky.

just copy this:
{php}
require_once(mnminclude.'link.php');
$link = new Link;

// Edit this line here to change the story
// to figure out what number a story is, hover your mouse over the votebox for the story
// you'll see javascript:vote(A, B, C, 'D', E)
// the 2nd number (B) will be the number you enter below
// a better version of this module will come with Pligg V1.0

$link->id=40;


$link->read();
$link->print_summary('summary');
{/php}<br>

and paste it right under the first article, if you want more, just keep pasting. at least this is the solution that worked for me.

Originally Posted by newsome

Thanks for the info folks. Just one more question:

Can I feature e.g. Top 5 stories or just one with this mod?

Again, thanks in advance.