1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Glow Blogs 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Quick Tips 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Sticky posts 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,000 These are a feature of WordPress Blogs which allow you to 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000 make something stick to your front page, a particular post 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000 and this can be very useful especially in times like now 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,000 when we are not in school 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,000 we want to direct people to particularly important information 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,000 So I am going to show you a couple of examples of these 10 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,000 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,000 The first is on the school site that I teach in 12 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,000 and you can see we use the TwentyFourteen theme 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,000 and up at the top we have got this bar 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 which has got 3 posts that have been made to be sticky posts 15 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000 and then we have told WordPress 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 in the customiser to display these across there 17 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,000 as tiles. This gives you a very quick visual 18 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,000 menu. It is important when using sticky posts especially in TwentyFourteen 19 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000 that you add a featured image 20 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,000 to your post, because they give you this visual image here 21 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000 and you can see we have got 3 things at the top of our site 22 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,000 information for parents and then a couple of home learning 23 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,000 links. So if I look quickly inside 24 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,000 the customiser. And go to 25 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Featured Content. I can see I’ve got a grid layout 26 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,000 and I am using a tag. It say use 27 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,000 a tag to feature your posts if no post match the sticky posts 28 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,000 instead. So you can either use a tag to do this or 29 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,000 or you can use the posts you make sticky 30 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,000 inside the editor. So I am hiding 31 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,000 tag, that featured tag, so that it dosn’t come up 32 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,000 When I make a 33 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,000 post on the site if wanted it to go there 34 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,000 I make a new post 35 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 I would just go down to the tags and type 36 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000 “featured” and add that tag 37 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,000 The otherthing I could do if I wasn’t using a tag 38 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,000 is I can go into 39 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Visibility and edit that and edit this and say “Stick this Post” 40 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,000 an that makes it a Sticky Post. I would OK that. 41 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,000 and when I publish this it would go to the top. It is important 42 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,000 to use a feature image. Becasue I use featured images a lot I’ve move the featured image 43 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,000 box for featured up near the top so I can see it 44 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,000 All you do is choose a picture 45 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,000 and set the featured Image. That would become the 46 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,000 featured image of the blog and would show up in the “menu”. 47 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,000 You have got to remember 48 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 that it lays them out in sets of 3 and adds 49 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,000 six altogether. I think 3 is a good number. 50 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,000 The 3 most important things on you site. 51 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 There is another way on my class blog I use “Sticky Posts” 52 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000 The post at the top is a generalised 53 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,000 home learning one. That is it there 54 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,000 because it means that 55 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,000 you immediately see that one posts. Because this is a different theme 56 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,000 this is TwentySixteen it just goes in as a featured post and it goes to the top 57 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,000 goes to the top of the blog. But it says there. So if other posts 58 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,000 come in below. I’ve also used a plugin 59 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 to display particular posts. I’ll explain that in another video. 60 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Quick Tip. If you are setting your site up 61 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,000 and you want to direct people to places quickly sticky posts are a really good way 62 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:12,773 to do it