[wp-forums] Making posts sticky

[Christine Rondeau]

Thanks Otto

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On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> Currently, there is no good way to sticky posts to a theme-specific
> forum like there is for a plugin-specific forum. There are a bunch of
> technical jibber-jabber reasons for this. :)
>
> I'm aware of the problem. It is being worked on.
>
> However, at this time, no theme-specific threads should be made
> sticky. It doesn't work the right way when you do that. I un-stickied
> the responsive thread for this reason.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> wrote:
> > Right. :)
> >
> > I'm suggesting to move that Responsive Theme sticky to the Responsive
> Theme
> > support forum (since it only applies to users of the Responsive Theme,
> > anyway). That would set a better precedent, I think.
> >
> > As a related suggestion: it would be nice if Theme developers could
> assign
> > such sticky posts for their own Theme support forums.
> >
> > (I don't know what kind of under-the-hood changes, if any, either
> > suggestion would require. IIRC, the support forums are a franken-coded
> > version of bbPress.)
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Christine Rondeau <
> > christine at bluelimemedia.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I think that the request was to have the sticky post in the theme and
> >> template section of the support.
> >>
> >> So on this page -
> http://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates
> >> You can see here, that there's a sticky post for Responsive.
> >>
> >> My question was whether or not we want to start letting theme devs add
> more
> >> sticky about their theme. Personally, I think that this info would be
> >> better on the theme developer's personal site.
> >>
> >> **Christine
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> >> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Can Theme-specific posts be made sticky in the Theme-specific forums?
> >> Since
> >> > the Theme support forums are tag-based (IIRC), that may not be
> possible;
> >> > but it would be handy if Theme developers could add their own sticky
> >> topics
> >> > to their own Theme support forums.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Christine Rondeau <
> >> > christine at bluelimemedia.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Hi there,
> >> > >
> >> > > I was asked on Twitter if I could help this theme dev if I could
> make a
> >> > > post sticky.
> >> > > I did this once for the Responsive theme since that theme had it's
> own
> >> > > forum, but this thread is much more general. If we start making
> >> stickies
> >> > > for all theme dev, won't it defeat the purpose of sticky posts.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-before-posting-a-support-question-or-rating?replies=1
> >> > >
> >> > > Let me know what you think.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > **Christine
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