Makeing a post sticky.
As the blogosphere is abuzz about all the cool new features in the new WordPress , I’ve seen very few (if any) good posts on the new Sticky Posts feature that will allow you to take any story, or stories, you’ve published and place them at the top of your homepage without editing the timestamp. This new feature will allow you to take posts that you’re especially proud of and display them for all the world to see for as long as you want.
TURING A POST INTO A STICKY POST
In the 2.7 Post edit panel, over in the publish module, you’ll notice a little checkbox. When you check this box and publish the post (or save an already published post), that post will then be pulled to the top of your homepage.
Also, it is worth noting that a post can be made “sticky” using the “Quick Edit” panel as well. In WordPress 2.7, simple click the Posts -> Edit link, then click the “Quick Edit” link.
This will bring up a panel that lets you edit common features of a post like its categories, tags, title, slug, date, author, etc. But it also allows you to change whether or not a post is a sticky post.
This is especially handy when you need to “unsticky” a post in order to let another post take it’s place at the top of the homepage. Imagine how tedious it would be to have to pull up the full Edit Post panel just to “unsticky” a post. It would get very annoying, so I’m glad to see the developers opted to include this option in the Quick Edit panel as well.
