Sticky Posts!
Regular updates are what blogging’s all about, but sometimes you want to keep hot topics or other static info at the top of your posts. This feature has existed as Sticky Topics in the forums, but hasn’t been available on blogs. Until now.
In the publishing options for each post you’ll now see “Stick this post to the front page.”
Sticky posts checkbox.
Check that box, click Publish and — ta da! — your post is highlighted at the top of your blog, where it will stay until you decide otherwise.
Sticky posts in action.
When your fresh stuff gets stale, just edit the post and uncheck the box. Click Save and it’s back to its place in chronological order.
Pretty fantasticky.
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September 8th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Too bad only the new Albeo theme supports a sticky post with a different colour from the others…
September 8th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Actually many of the themes use a different color for the sticky style. Some simply use a different color for the post title. Each theme does it a little differently.
September 8th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
LOVE IT!!!! I’ve wanted something like this for a long time. I LOVE WP!
September 8th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
i was wondering what that was… such a useful feature. thanx a million
September 8th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Oh man… yet another feature I love! I don’t know when I’m going to use it, but I can see it coming in handy.
September 8th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Really nice, I hope more features will come soon.
September 8th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Hey now! That’s a feature I can sure use! Thanks!
September 8th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Yay! I was hoping for something like this. Now I can have featured articles. Thank you.
September 8th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Cool! Very Nice! Thanks!
September 8th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
awesome! thanks for this.
September 8th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Luvly!
thank u darlings!!
September 8th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
That is what we were looking for…
September 8th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
This is cool…Thank you!
September 8th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
yayy!!!
September 8th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
This is what makes wordpress unique, special and different than others
Thanks,
September 8th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
fantastico! anzi utile!
September 8th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
yeahh!!! i love this one!!
DD
September 8th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Fan-freaking-sticky-tastic!
I love new features…
September 8th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Thanx you very much, keep up zi blogging. My blog can be cool at times.
September 8th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank you! THE best upgrade ever!!!!!!1
September 8th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
This is a great feature.
Thanks for making WordPress so useful. It blows the competition away.
A bargain at twice the price!
September 8th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
excellent feature
September 8th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Oooh. I like.
September 8th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
why i can’t post a picture in the sticky post?
September 8th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Sticky posts can have images just like any other post. If you are having problems inserting an image, please send us a support request.
September 8th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!! That is simply spectacular!
September 8th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Fantastic feature. Thanks!
September 8th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Oh, this is great! I’ll use it. Thanks.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
thank you, good stick great time
September 8th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Great tip
September 8th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I felt it was coming! thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!
You, the WP team, are great!
September 8th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Cool!!
September 8th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Wonderful!
(Talkin’ ’bout Heather… obvious… *smiles*)
September 8th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Heather is hot.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Excellent! Great feature to keep a post that is getting lots of comments front and center.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Excellent…thank you.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
That’s the greatest news, I ever heard about WP :love:
Sticky posts rulez!
September 8th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
This will be very useful. Thanks.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
yay!!!
oh and btw… heather… you look AWESOME!
September 8th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Wow, awesome. Thankyou!
September 8th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
you know there is about 100 comments here simply saying ‘awesome’. Well here’s another one! ‘awesome’.
I have been tooling about with wordpress for about a year. In that time it’s ease of use and features rating for my mind has gone through the roof. WordPress really is the best blogging tool!
September 8th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
awesome
thanks
September 8th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Excellent feature. Thank you.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Cool!!! I’d love this option.
September 8th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
ooh fabby can’t wait to nibble on it
September 8th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Good move
September 8th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I was looking for that for years (except that I am here only for 3 months or so).
-Frank
PS. This is really a good feature. Thanks.
September 8th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
cool
September 8th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
HEATHER!
GIVE YOURSELF A BIG KISS from Me
This is EXACTLY what we need to announce the launch of our new plugin!!
(I HAVE BEEN re-posting THAT SUCKER [DAILY] FOR A WEEK NOW
ThanX so much !
A®
September 8th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Just tried it out with my blog using Contempt theme, but it doesn’t look right. The post’s title has a blue background but the rest of the post looks normal. It doesn’t look right. Has anyone had any luck with Contempt?
September 8th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Each theme has the sticky posts styled differently.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Wow that’s what I’m talking about.lol
Thanks
September 8th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Brilliant, dudes: suitably impressed.
Now, a suggestion: can we have stickies that time out, please – instead of having to remember to go back in and de-sticky the post, how about an expiry date option so that the post de-stickies itself after a set deadline? I guess the default option should be sticky for ever, but to be able to make a post sticky for a preset period: that would be truly awesome!
Yes, I know, I’m a lazy sod who wants it all — but hey, that’s why I’m with WordPress
Thanks guys!
September 8th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
I waited for this to come – thanks a lot. Keep, keep, keep going …
September 8th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
is there a way that you can just have the name of the post as a sticky not the whole post????
September 8th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Sure, use the more tag as the first thing in your post before any text.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I’m impressed. One of these days, I’ll send separate emails – by topic – to several of the hardworking staff who keep us all happy with the progress made in WordPress. If I wasn’t busy keeping up my share of Posts on my personal blog – and doing the same on the “big blog” I edit – I’d really enjoy a discussion on where WordPress and AutoMattic are going.
For now, once again, my compliments to the chef.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Awesome…..really cool.
Thanks.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
omg!omg! omg! thank you~~ ive been waiting for this for so long!! thanks!!
September 8th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
That feature rocks. Really something we needed… or at least I did
Now have to find out when and how I will use it… but I need it, I know it for sure
Thanks,
Phil.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
oh ima enjoy this, especially since I have an entertainment blog. =] hehehe
September 8th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
I gave up my self-hosted WP blog (my web host was driving me nuts) and came to wordpress.com. Never ONCE have I regretted that decision. But the plug-in I missed the most was the sticky posts.
Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!!!! Seriously guys, you ROCK!!
September 8th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Love it! Thanks!
September 8th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
great idea, thanks
September 8th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
You guys rock!
September 8th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Just in time for me!
Great feature.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I haven’t tried it, but it sounds great! I’ll use it when I get the chance.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Just in time! I had already started resetting the date of posting on my alert to the Freedom Film Fest. Much easier now, and the html link won’t keep changing!
September 8th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Thanks Nick
September 8th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Can’t wait to try it
September 9th, 2008 at 12:05 am
niiiiiiiice! thank you!
September 9th, 2008 at 12:14 am
i love this! thanks wp!
September 9th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Schweeeeet! I have been looking for this for, like, forever!
Thank you thank you thank you etc…
September 9th, 2008 at 12:22 am
fantastic – so useful! thank you.
September 9th, 2008 at 12:23 am
I’ve been waiting for this FOREVAH! Snap… Crack… WOOSH!
September 9th, 2008 at 12:31 am
great! useful for countdown, or even a chat@shout box!
September 9th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Great Tool, I can’t wait to use it.
September 9th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Wow! Thanks! This will be useful
September 9th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Very cool. That’s what I like about WordPress.com you continue to make improvements!
Thanks for everything,
Jerryl
September 9th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Greattttt, thanks
September 9th, 2008 at 1:30 am
good
September 9th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Brilliant – thank you!!!
September 9th, 2008 at 1:34 am
we were doing it thru a workaround by simply posting newer posts at a time/date older than the post we wanted to keep on top…looks like this fulfills our wish…if you read this – check some more of our wishlist
grazie
September 9th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Ya it will be useful!
September 9th, 2008 at 1:58 am
brilliant. thanks!
September 9th, 2008 at 2:12 am
That would make easy for everyone who want to make some announcement…. Thanks wp.com
September 9th, 2008 at 2:16 am
Is there anything you kids can’t think of? And to think, I got reamed for not going with TypePad. Pish. Tosh.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:47 am
Wow, this is a great new feature! I know I’ll use this quite a bit!
September 9th, 2008 at 2:55 am
wow, its nice so i have to drop a comment here. used it right away. thank you very much
September 9th, 2008 at 3:16 am
This is nice. Que cool!
September 9th, 2008 at 3:24 am
that’s right
September 9th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Excellent feature! Thanks Team WP
September 9th, 2008 at 3:58 am
Ooh! Stickies! Sounds like a lot of fun!
September 9th, 2008 at 3:59 am
Just a few days ago I requested this ability – Thanks so much!