WordPress’ sticky posts feature was introduced six years ago in the 2.7release. It was added to enable users to stick important posts to the front page so that they won’t disappear in a blog’s steady stream of chronologically ordered content.

By default, a sticky post is sticky indefinitely and requires you to manually uncheck the box under the post’s visibility settings in order to remove its stickiness. Expire Sticky Posts is a new ultra-simple plugin that allows you to set an expiration date on your sticky selections.

The plugin, created by Andy von Dohren, is a fork of the Simple Post Expiration plugin by Pippin Williamson. Expire Sticky Posts adds a date entry box to the publish panel for setting an expiration date if the post has been checked as sticky.

The plugin is perfect for automating the management of seasonal sticky posts and important time-sensitive notices. Also, some themes rely on sticky posts for setting the featured content on the homepage, requiring you to manually change them out. This plugin allows you to set up future dates for expiring sticky posts at the time that you publish them, so you don’t have to log in and change it later.

I tested the plugin and found that it works as advertised. The only thing I would add is the ability to set a specific time in addition to the date, as this may be important in some instances. If you find the Expire Sticky Postsplugin to be useful and have any further feedback, feel free to leave a note in the issues queue of the project’s GitHub repository.

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Maintaining a library of code snippets can save you time when coding similar tasks in the future. Although there are countless sites online where you can host code snippets, it’s more convenient to have them at your fingertips when writing a blog that includes code.

Plugin developer Justin Sternberg recently released Code Snippets CPT, a plugin that allows you to manage and display code snippets in WordPress. This unique use of custom post types stores code snippets as their own individual posts, which can be pulled into content via a handy shortcode.

The plugin uses Google Code Prettify to add syntax highlighting to your snippets. When creating a new snippet, you simply select the language from the dropdown at the top of the post editor. Write a description, add your snippet, and click publish.

Code Snippets CPT also includes custom taxonomies for classifying your snippets. You can add both snippet categories and snippet tags, which will then allow for some unique ways of organizing and displaying your library of snippets.

When you want to display a snippet within a post or page, click on the “Add Snippet” button in the visual or text editor to launch the shortcode finder. You can select whether or not you want to display line numbers for the snippet that you are embedding.

Sternberg’s site is running the plugin, if you want to view a few liveexamples of snippets in posts.

Code Snippets CPT allows you to create a searchable archive of code snippets on your own site, without having to host snippets with a third party service. The advantage of hosting your own snippets is that you can keep your code library centralized and back it up as part of your WordPress site.

Having code snippets stored as custom post types is a step up from simply using a syntax highlighter plugin, because it gives you the flexibility to sort and display snippets using their own snippet-specific taxonomies. If you want to get your code library organized in 2015, check out the Code Snippets CPT plugin on WordPress.org.

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