There are times when you have a post that is evergreen and you want it to stay on your index page. WordPress will typically move each post down the page as you add additional content. This can be a problem if you want to highlight a specific post on your home page.
Now, there are many reasons why you might want to highlight a post.
- You create a welcome post that you want everyone to see first.
- You might have a very useful topic that you want to highlight.
- You want to highlight a product review.
- Or any other reason you can think of to do this.
The reason is not important for this article which is totally up to you as the blog owner. The key is how you can achieve this.
It only takes a few changes to the way you normally post for this to happen.
- Write your post as you normally would.
- When you’re ready to publish it, click the edit link next to visibility in the post area.
- Click the box next to “Paste this post on the front page.”
- Post your post.
If you already have a post that you’d like to display at the top of the index page, the process is almost the same, except you need to access the post edit function and follow steps 2-4.
You can do this with more than one post, but they will display on the front page in the descending order that you posted them. The last post you pinned will always be displayed at the top. If you had a greeting post and added another sticky post, you would need to edit the greeting post again to keep it on top.