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Sticky posts
These are a feature of WordPress Blogs which allow you to
make something stick to your front page, a particular post
and this can be very useful especially in times like now
when we are not in school
we want to direct people to particularly important information
So I am going to show you a couple of examples of these
The first is on the school site that I teach in
and you can see we use the TwentyFourteen theme
and up at the top we have got this bar
which has got 3 posts that have been made to be sticky posts
and then we have told WordPress
in the customiser to display these across there
as tiles. This gives you a very quick visual
menu. It is important when using sticky posts especially in TwentyFourteen
that you add a featured image
to your post, because they give you this visual image here
and you can see we have got 3 things at the top of our site
information for parents and then a couple of home learning
links. So if I look quickly inside
the customiser. And go to
Featured Content. I can see I’ve got a grid layout
and I am using a tag. It say use
a tag to feature your posts if no post match the sticky posts
instead. So you can either use a tag to do this or
or you can use the posts you make sticky
inside the editor. So I am hiding
tag, that featured tag, so that it dosn’t come up
When I make a
post on the site if wanted it to go there
I make a new post
I would just go down to the tags and type
“featured” and add that tag
The otherthing I could do if I wasn’t using a tag
is I can go into
Visibility and edit that and edit this and say “Stick this Post”
an that makes it a Sticky Post. I would OK that.
and when I publish this it would go to the top. It is important
to use a feature image. Becasue I use featured images a lot I’ve move the featured image
box for featured up near the top so I can see it
All you do is choose a picture
and set the featured Image. That would become the
featured image of the blog and would show up in the “menu”.
You have got to remember
that it lays them out in sets of 3 and adds
six altogether. I think 3 is a good number.
The 3 most important things on you site.
There is another way on my class blog I use “Sticky Posts”
The post at the top is a generalised
home learning one. That is it there
because it means that
you immediately see that one posts. Because this is a different theme
this is TwentySixteen it just goes in as a featured post and it goes to the top
goes to the top of the blog. But it says there. So if other posts
come in below. I’ve also used a plugin
to display particular posts. I’ll explain that in another video.
Quick Tip. If you are setting your site up
and you want to direct people to places quickly sticky posts are a really good way
to do it