WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 is available for download now and I’ve been testing out some of the new features. In this post I’ll demonstrate the new “stick this post” feature in WordPress 2.7.
WordPress has a great community of people who contribute themes and plugins for other users to download and use for free on their blogs. Often these plugins are written to add functionality to WordPress that is in high demand but is not provided by the core software. Occassionally this means a popular plugin function is incorporated into the WordPress code, such as Tags in version 2.5.
There are some plugins available for WordPress (such as WP-Sticky) that add the ability to “stick” a post to the top of the blog so that it appears above newer posts. This is useful for blogs who want to keep an important announcement at the top of their blog and not have it pushed further down the screen by newer short posts.
WordPress 2.7 now includes this functionality with a check box in the publishing section of the visual editor.
By checking this box you nominate that post to be shown at the top of your blog regardless of whether newer posts have been published. If more than one sticky post has been published they will appear in order of newest to oldest, and they will all appear above non-stickied posts. This means if you eventually want a sticky post to no longer appear at the top of your blog you will need to edit the post and clear the check box.
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