# Sticky Posts **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [November 13, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sticky-posts/75814 "2006-11-13T17:29:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ruben_DSOrduz)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sticky-posts/75814/1 "2006-11-13T17:29:24Z")
Hey guys (I know…I should be debugging .Net code…I’m a bad employee), What’s would be the most painless way to add a “sticky” behavior to posts? For example…something I wish to remain in the front page in spite of its publishing date. Any help is much appreciated…Jose…if I can get a few more minutes off, I’ll look into the routes.rb file and let you know which lines I’d be messing with 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ruben_DSOrduz)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sticky-posts/75814/2 "2007-01-16T03:06:49Z")
If you’re willing to play with the mental branch, I’ve done something similar in my extension that I’m working on for the website I’m working on - The main page will always have a feature article that might not necessarily be the latest article - it will simply be the most recent article marked as a ‘feature’. Poke around [http://soxbox.no-ip.org/radiant/svn/extensions/x\_groggy/](http://soxbox.no-ip.org/radiant/svn/extensions/x_groggy/) - there’s heaps of other crap in there, but mainly you just want to look at the article\_page.rb, article\_metadata.rb and the articles:feature and articles:each tags in lib/groggy\_tabs.rb. I haven’t added in the bit to actually SET that flag, but it’ll just be a check-box on the article editing page. Dan. * * * From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Ruben D. Orduz Sent: Tuesday, 14 November 2006 3:28 AM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: [Radiant] Sticky Posts Hey guys (I know…I should be debugging .Net code…I’m a bad employee), What’s would be the most painless way to add a “sticky” behavior to posts? For example…something I wish to remain in the front page in spite of its publishing date. Any help is much appreciated…Jose…if I can get a few more minutes off, I’ll look into the routes.rb file and let you know which lines I’d be messing with 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ruben_DSOrduz)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sticky-posts/75814/3 "2007-01-16T03:27:53Z")
Huh huh…very, very, very interesting Daniel. Don’t know if you saw my other post regarding this issue, but in essence I “cheated” and didn’t mess with mental branch at all. I basically created a column in the pages table called “is\_featured” of type tinyint (I only want 1||0), default 0. Then I used the \ tag and used the “by=columnName” argument to retrieve the latest post marked as featured. Then hacked a checkbox in the admin interface that sets an article as being featured. ---
**Author:** ![Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ruben_DSOrduz)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sticky-posts/75814/4 "2007-01-16T03:34:55Z")
Heh - I just realised that I had the folder sorted by subject rather than date and was replying to an old post. That’s probably the approach I would’ve used in radiant 0.5.2, but the extensions mechanism in mental has curbed just about every temptation I have to touch the core.