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Have you noticed that some posts seem to be permanently placed at the top of the blog page, and newer posts are forced to appear beneath it? This is because they have been ‘stuck’ there, a phenomenon that is not confined to blogging, but can be found in Facebook and similar social media platforms.
It is very easy to make your posts ‘sticky’, it just requires ticking a certain box. But unfortunately the duration of this ‘stickiness’ cannot be scheduled or automated, it does require a manual action by the blogger to activate and deactivate it.
In the page where you write your posts, you will be familiar with the menu for saving, previewing and publishing (located top right).
Click on the Edit link after ‘Visibility: Public‘ and the menu will extend downwards, revealing more options. This Publish menu has many exciting things hiding in it!
Below the default checked ‘Public’ button an indented box will have appeared marked ‘Stick this post to the front page’.
When you click in the box a tick will appear, which means the post you are currently writing will be placed at the top of your post hierarchical system when it is published.
When you don’t want your post to be ‘sticky’ any more, this can be simply cancelled by clicking on the same ticked box again to make the tick disappear, and then update your post. It’s as simple as that!
Magic Moment: How to show tweets within posts
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Whenever WordPress is updated, there is usually a nice new feature to explore and marvel at.
In the latest version (3.4), WordPress allows us to display tweets in posts (as shown below). When you mouse over it, you’ll find that it is also interactive, so you can follow the twitterer, retweet or reply to the tweet, or even mark it as a favourite.
(It’s so nice when I get complimentary comments – maybe I should show more of them…)
And it’s easy to do this yourself. Go to the twitterer’s timeline, find the tweet in question and click on it.
Copy that URL and then paste it into your blog page you are writing. Although you only see the URL in your text, when you preview your post the tweet will be shown in all its glory!
–oo0oo–
And now I’ve just found another facet within this feature. While preparing another complimentary tweet, after I clicked on ‘Details’ the tweet expanded to show the conversations before and after, with the light grey link ‘Embed this Tweet’ appearing in the same place. This resulted in a menu that provide me with the HTML code for the tweet:
but when your preview or publish, it appears like this:
which in spite of the typo I think this is pretty cool!
And hopefully without going overboard, here’s another example:
Happy tweet-blogging!