What is a sticky post? it is a common question for newbie bloggers. Sticky Post is a pretty useful feature to show something useful or evergreen article on your site home page for a particular time. It is used for making special posts like Editorials, Giveaways, Introduction articles and many more.
Naturally, the latest posts will appear on the home page by ascending order. A sticky post will make a temporary place in the first place of the article position in the blog home page. The newly published articles will appear next to the Sticky post. The idea for making an article is unlimited, and in this article, we show how to make Sticky Post in WordPress.
How to make Sticky Post in WordPress
Making a sticky post is a pretty simple process in the latest version of WordPress. All you need to head over the Posts section in your WordPress dashboard and select published articles. In that select your desired article you want to make it as a Sticky post and click on Quick Edit. Here you will see a simple checkbox with “Make this post sticky” letters on the right side of the Dashboard.
To make the particular article as sticky just click on the checkbox and update the article settings. You can make as many as sticky posts in WordPress.
Alternate Method
You can enable Sticky Post directly while editing published article. Simply go the article you want to make sticky and click on edit post. Here on the right side, you see “Publish” section. Here you will see Visibility: Public Edit option. Now click on edit, here you’ll see “Stick this post to the front page”. Now click on the checkbox and update the post.
That’s it, it is very simple to create a sticky post. You don’t need any script or plugin to activate the sticky post in WordPress. If you want to remove or disable sticky posts simply follow the same steps above given and uncheck the box and update settings. It will remove the sticky post from your Blog home page. I hope this article is helped you to show sticky posts. If you liked this article please like us on Facebook for more WordPress updates and guides.
