MichaelH

This search should get you Justin Tadlock guide on sticky post that could help you:

http://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+sticky+posts

You’ll need to access the ‘m’ query var with $year_month = get_query_var('m'); then separate that into year and month and use that in your query arguments…see query_posts() for those Time related parameters.

You will need to get conversant with The Loop use a post variable such as $post->post_title

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Better to just use a query_posts() loop to do that and use the_time(), and the_author(), in your code.

Use the_modified_time in your template.

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This should do it

List all posts sorted by tag name or category name or taxonomy custom taxonomy
Within each category posts sorted ascending by post title.

<?php
//get all terms (e.g. categories or post tags), then display all posts in each term
$taxonomy = 'category';//  e.g. post_tag, category
$param_type = 'category__in'; //  e.g. tag__in, category__in
$term_args=array(
  'include' => '1,2,3',
  'orderby' => 'name',
  'order' => 'ASC',
  'child_of' => 3
);
$terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$term_args);
if ($terms) {
  foreach( $terms as $term ) {
    $args=array(
      "$param_type" => array($term->term_id),
      'order' => 'ASC',
      'orderby' => 'title',
      'post_type' => 'portfolio',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => -1,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1
      );
    $my_query = null;
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      echo 'List of Posts in '.$taxonomy .' '.$term->name;
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
        <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
       <?php
      endwhile;
    }
  }
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>