Sticky posts, will let you bump a story to the top of the homepage – without the need of editing the time stamp over and over again. This is handy for me, because with the Web Hosting Show’s site, I wanted to keep the most recent podcast pinned to the top of WebHostingShow.com – with new content following bellow it. With a little template editing, WordPress interface knowledge and some hard work – you can do the same.
How to Get Started with Sticky Posts
The best guide thus far on how to use this WordPress feature that was introduced back in WordPress 2.7 is Nathan Rice’s Definitive Sticky Posts Guide. Here you can learn how to make a post sticky from within WordPress, and how to edit your theme’s templates to reflect the changes.
Show More Than One Sticky Post
What if you want to get more than just one sticky post in your WordPress blog? Then you might need to check out how to get the latest sticky posts via WPRecipies.com. That have a code snippet up that goes right before the loop, that retrieves X most recent sticky posts.
All in all, it is a fun weekend side project to try out – if your looking to add a little something special to your WordPress powered web site.
