Sticky posts

Hi there!

Yes, you should not embed using the quick embed code—you should use the “Enable Forum” checkbox in the page editor that is available when this plugin is installed. Then, you can add the following block of code to your theme’s functions.php file to add custom navigation (so, links to the specific posts and channels in the forum’s navigation bar):

function my_add_custom_muut_navigation() { ?>
	<!-- Custom Navigation Below Standard -->
	<div class="m-h3">Sticky Posts</div>
	<a href="#!/my-sticky-post-path:thepost" class="unlisted">My Custom Sticky Post</a>
	<!-- End Custom Navigation -->

<?php }
add_action( 'muut_forum_custom_navigation', 'my_add_custom_muut_navigation' );

You can edit the code between the <!-- Custom Navigation Below Standard --> and <!-- End Custom Navigation --> navigation with other custom navigation code as outined in our Custom Navigation documentation. Note that only need to add code that is the custom navigation itself, not the forum embed code—just the things after it.

This thread in our main support forum has more details on that. You might also check that out with a quick search for other stuff—often many questions you might run into have been answered there. ??

Thanks Paul, I’ll try this.

I have recently disabled the Muut default sidebar and made my custom navigation with standard WordPress links and WordPress sidebar link widget. However, this is not looking so good and I think I’ll go back to Muut sidebar with this Custom Navigation you suggested. I’ll have to play with this some more and find the best solution ??

Is it so that I cannot glue one post in the top of discussion channel as sticky post? I think I read this from your forum. Is this a coming feature? So only sticky post links in sidebar available?

thanks ??

That’s correct, you can’t stick a post to the top of the posts list. One of the reasons is pretty simple—it’s one of those features of traditional forums that is standard, but kind of strange. People stick posts that only need to be read once or twice—forum rules and such. Nevertheless, users are forced to see the post every single time they load the forum cluttering up their posts because it is stuck there, rather than nicely out of the way (somewhere like in the sidebar). We’re anti-clutter. ??

Good point Paul ??

I can also handle this “sticky-post” -feature by writing some kind of forum instructions and/or rules -articles in WordPress and link those to Muut sidebar by using your Custom Navigation -method. Or is it possible to have links to wp articles in Muut Custom Navigation -code? Or then I just use the sidebar sticky post method you suggested…

thanks.

Yep! That would work just fine. ??

Paul

I have to play with this some more, but I think this can be marked as resolved. Thanks again.

Awesome; my pleasure! ??