Can a "Sticky" view be added to the Edit Posts page next to Drafts?

[designsimply]

Can a "Sticky" view be added to the Edit Posts page next to Drafts? See ​http://img.skitch.com/20081202-8qxrw7xxfcjp8m7mq664me993p.jpg

[janeforshort]

Would only appear when there are sticky posts, not when there are 0. Sticky should also be a label on post title in list, as with password-protected and private.

[westi]

Very good idea.

Is this necessary for 2.7 as we need to freeze the strings to ensure the translators have an easy job getting it all done in time (I know this _may_ reuse other strings)

Can it wait for 2.8 / 2.7.1?

[ryan]

I like the idea too, but it can wait.

[mrmist]

Taking a quick look at this it would seem that it would be a whole load easier if sticky_post was a status. Unfortunately that would break loads of other stuff I suspect.

Otherwise (at least with my level of understanding) the generation code for the post counts bar on the edit screen, and the filtering of the list to the different sections becomes a hacky mish-mash of the foreach loop that's there now, and a seperate piece of code that would count up stickies.

[janeforshort]

Since this ticket was started, Ryan has created a status for Sticky, which now shows up as black text to the right of title on the list screen (just like Private, Draft, etc), so hopefully this should be easier now?

[mrmist]

Replying to janeforshort:

Since this ticket was started, Ryan has created a status for Sticky, which now shows up as black text to the right of title on the list screen (just like Private, Draft, etc), so hopefully this should be easier now?

Potentially yes, but until sticky is set as a post_type in wp_posts then the wp_count_posts query will ignore them. My knowledge is not yet up to modifying that to include stuff that is set is_sticky.

[mrmist]

This is probably possible by using a filter on the manage_posts_columns now somehow?

[nacin]

8466.diff:

• Adds a "Sticky (#)" link to the edit posts screen.
• This link appears immediately after "Published (#)" if present, otherwise right after "All (#)".
• Moves wp() calls in the admin to query_posts(). Per discussion late in the 3.0 cycle, but needs to be double-checked.

[mrmist]

Patch seems ok to me, tested sticky posts with different status (pending, draft etc..) all showed up ok in the view.

[nacin]

Related: #12702, sticky posts for custom post types.

[nacin]

Patch refreshed against [15742].

[westi]

Patch looks ok.

Should use wp() still as that merges the query string in the url with the extra query arguments.

Looks like we should add post__in and post__not__in to the private query vars in the WP class

[nacin]

(In [16003]) Add a 'Sticky' filter on the edit posts page. Add post_in and post_not_in as private query vars in the WP class to support this. fixes #8466.