Is there a way to make something a "sticky"?

Question

For example a question that is always on the top to make announcements and etc.

This would be rare so even setting the page to display a question by the ID at the top first would work.

Answer 1

Great question!

It's not yet possible to do this via the admin interface, but a bit of PHP can do the trick. In qa-page-home.php, insert the following code:

array_unshift($questions,
  qa_db_single_select($qa_db,
    qa_db_full_post_selectspec($qa_login_userid, 392299)
  )
);

...after...

$questions=qa_any_sort_and_dedupe($questions);

You'll need to modify 392299 above to be the ID of the question you want to make sticky - you can see this from its URL.

Comments

And if you only want it sticky on the first page, add the following line just before:

if ($qa_start==0)

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Thanks, works great.

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where is this file existing? qa-page-home.php

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Is this still not possible? Seems easy enough to add a sticky field and sort by sticky.

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In ver 1.6.3, the page is called qa-page-default.php I believe. I implemented this code as describe above and it fails returning undefined variable notices for qa_db and qa_login_user. There is a plugin by NoahY that does this, but also has its limitations.