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Do you have a great post that you want the world to see for a while? Then let me introduce you to sticky post! Sticky post, meet reader. Reader, meet sticky post.

Your Normal Settings
In your default WordPress blog setting, every time you publish a new post the older ones get bumped down one notch. The newest post takes over the top slot and is the first one people see when visiting your blog. This keeps your blog clean and tidy in chronological order.

Being A Little Sticky
There are, however, times when you might want that special blog post to “stick” around for a while in the top slot. WordPress allows you to to do this in the visibility settings on the right side of your post editing page.

Here is what to do:

1. Find the publish area on the edit post page.
2. Find the visibility setting (see image below).
3. Click “edit” to the right of visibility.
4. Check “Stick this post to the front page” (see image below).
5. Click ok to save the change.

That is it. You have just allowed that awesome post to hang around for a while longer to bask in all its greatness.

Thanks to Noupe for highlighting this feature in WordPress 2.7. If you want more great tips and tricks to master WordPress check out their article.

Tags: blogging, How To Write A Blog, wordpress