WordPress: Showing your Top 10 posts as the Recent Posts

[fcf360]

Some of my posts on my site are better than others. And I only want the best ones to show up on the home page. This is so because some of my older posts are much better is quality.

Is there plugin that allows you to show just 10 posts of your choice.

I know there are many plugins out there, that could show the most popular ones based on traffic etc, but even then the posts that you really want on the home page would not show up on the home page.

Any help greatly appreciated.

[SlicedGenius]

There is a 'related posts' plugin that allows you to hand pick what is considered related rather than use keywords/categories. Perhaps this could be adapted to help with your problem?

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thanks
Simon

[Cataclysm1987]

It doesn't look like it exists.

Maybe you should create it?

[Kelly Verge]

Do a search for "sticky posts." I think that's what it's called. You can make one or several posts stick to the top of the list.

[fcf360]

Originally Posted by Kelly Verge

Do a search for "sticky posts." I think that's what it's called. You can make one or several posts stick to the top of the list.

Not really. Sticky post basically means sticking one post as your home page. When people refer to "sticky post", that's what they're referring to.

[sts2k]

Hmm.. ifthere is enough demand for it, I might be able to create it.

[yourreviewer]

I just change the publishing dates of the posts that I want to appear on the homepage to the most recent.

Wouldn't this fix your problem?

[sunray]

Very strange that it doesn't exist in WordPress. In Drupal making a teaser (of a blog entry or of whatever other content type) sticky on the front page was a standard core feature already two versions ago.

[Kelly Verge]

Originally Posted by fcf360

Not really. Sticky post basically means sticking one post as your home page. When people refer to "sticky post", that's what they're referring to.

Well...

WP-Sticky

I couldn't remember the name and didn't take the time to look it up. I use this plugin for exactly this purpose on a client's site.

In his plugin, "sticky" means that post will be at the top of all posts for that day. "Announcement" means it is at the top of the list of all posts.

It will work for the OP's needs.

[fin]

In the dashboard, click on appearance, menu, then create your own menu.

Title it: my favorite posts.

Add it to sidebar above recent posts.

Job done.

[rosetrees]

Originally Posted by fcf360

Not really. Sticky post basically means sticking one post as your home page. When people refer to "sticky post", that's what they're referring to.

As Istvan isn't here, I'll say it for him. Sometimes advice from someone who doesn't know what they are talking about is worse than no advice at all.

You don't need a plug-in for this. Sticky posts is built into Wordpress.

Go to Settings/Reading and make sure "blog pages show at most" is set to the number of posts you want to appear.

Go to each post you want to appear on the home page. Click on Edit and to the right of each post you will see "visibility". Click on the word "edit" to get the dropdown menu and then put a tick in the box beside "stick this post to the front page".

[Istvan Horvath]

The "sticky" solution is almost there - without the plugin, of course, since now it's built-in, as Carol said above.

However... because there always must be a however/but!

Assume you have 35 posts in your blog. You make 10 of them sticky. But you still have to define (in Settings > Reading) how many posts you want to show on a page.

If you set it to 10 - on your main/index page you will have 10 sticky + 10 nonsticky. (then 10 on the previous posts, 10 again and finally 5)
If you set it to 0 - there will be nothing > error.
If you set it to 1 - main index 10 sticky + 1... BUT on every page of "earlier/previous posts" there will be only 1 post... 34 times.

I don't know of any plugin, which doesn't mean it couldn't exists. I just don't pay attention to plugins when something can be done simply by tweaking a bit of code in a template file.

You can have a Page template with dynamic content; i.e. showing the content you write into that Page AND XX number of posts by category OR by ID OR by whatever parameter you pick out of the existing ones in the database.
Then the static homepage would (should, actually) use this Page template.

E.g. you can create an otherwise hidden "featured" category and display 10 posts from it on this static frontpage with dynamic content of yours... and by adding/removing posts from that category you can manage which posts are displayed.

Ceterum censeo... you don't need a plugin for everything

[mattbyo]

Thanks Rosetrees! Was about to search for the stick notes plugin and saw your post where its already there. thanks for taking the time and saving me some time.

[Istvan Horvath]

Originally Posted by mattbyo

Thanks Rosetrees! Was about to search for the stick notes plugin and saw your post where its already there. thanks for taking the time and saving me some time.

Yep, everybody can save themselves a LOT of time if they bother to click on all the buttons/links in the wp-admin and learn the tool they are using

[fin]

When I was using Socrates, the sticky option make the background dark blue.

Make sure your theme doesn't do this as it's nasty.

[fcf360]

Originally Posted by fin

In the dashboard, click on appearance, menu, then create your own menu.

Title it: my favorite posts.

Add it to sidebar above recent posts.

Job done.

I doesn't allow me to to add any posts to the new menu. Only the pages, and categories etc.

[fcf360]

Originally Posted by rosetrees

As Istvan isn't here, I'll say it for him. Sometimes advice from someone who doesn't know what they are talking about is worse than no advice at all.

You don't need a plug-in for this. Sticky posts is built into Wordpress.

Go to Settings/Reading and make sure "blog pages show at most" is set to the number of posts you want to appear.

Go to each post you want to appear on the home page. Click on Edit and to the right of each post you will see "visibility". Click on the word "edit" to get the dropdown menu and then put a tick in the box beside "stick this post to the front page".

It doesn't work since I don't want all the POSTS I want to be shown up on the first page to actually show the WHOLE POST on the first page. I just want the LINK under the Latest Posts to be those posts that I want to place there.

I only want just ONE POST to be sticky, and showing up on the first page. I want the RECENT POSTS to be the ones I want to show.