Creating A Sticky Post In WordPress

Sometimes it’s helpful to create a sticky post in your blog, one that stays at the top of the home page and appears as the first post.  Actually, sometimes it’s useful to have several sticky posts, but just how do you create these?

Simples if you know how…

Wordpress Sticky Post

If you are creating a post in WordPress, the top right of the screen ought to look like this image above.

To create a Sticky Post, click on the Edit field to the right of where it says Visibility: Public, and the screen should change to look like the image below.

Wordpress Sticky Post

All you need to do to make your post a Sticky one, is to check the box that says Stick this post to the front page and then click on OK.

You can easily test this by modifying an older post, making it sticky, and then viewing the home page for your blog. 

To stop a post from being sticky?  Well I will leave you to figure that out…

How To Schedule A Post In WordPress

The ability to be able to schedule a post in any software package that is used for blogging comes in very handy, especially if you want to be able to write posts in advance and then to have them published at a pre-determined date and time.

Just how you schedule a post in WordPress isn’t that obvious to some people though, but this short illustrated tutorial should have you scheduling your posts easily from now on.

How To Schedule A Post In WordPress

When composing a new post, the top right side of the screen should look similar to the image above.

Click on the link that says Edit to the right of Publish Immediately, and the display will change to show the Date and Time that you want your post to be scheduled as below.

How To Schedule A Post In WordPress

All that you need to do in order to schedule your post is to change the date and/or time, click the OK button, and that’s it.  Simples…

One word of advice, if you are going to schedule posts in advance, you should always make sure that your wordpress blog has been set to the correct time zone.

You can do this on the General tab under Settings on the Dashboard.

Article Summary 6th September 2010

This is a list of articles that I have written on Associated Content in the last week, I hope you will take a look at them and also enjoy them.

I write on a number of topics, usually it depends on what comes into my head on any given day, so it could be a travel story, memoirs from my life, something from the daily news, or even a poem inspired by something.

This is what I have published in the last week, enjoy:

If you enjoy my writings, poetry and photographs, why not register with Associated Content, and then you can get an email every time I publish something.

Now that I am back into writing I already have a number of additional articles published.  You can also Click Here to see my latest articles, rather than wait for the next summary posting.

Fixed Social Buttons – A Great WordPress Plugin

FIxed Social Buttons is a great plugin for WordPress that adds share buttons to the most popular social networking and bookmarking sites to your wordpress pagesSeveral weeks ago I discovered a great little plugin for WordPress called Fixed Social Buttons.

This plugin automatically places buttons for popular Social Networking and Bookmarking sites at the side of your blog page, it’s very easy to set up, and the buttons stand out much better for sharing than others I have found in the body of a post.

To install the plugin on your WordPress site, go to Plugins in the Admin Panel and select Add New.  Then search for “Fixed Social Buttons.   The nice thing about the latest versions of WordPress I think everyone will agree is that plugins these days can be installed and updated at the touch of a button, and this is no exception.  It’s a lot better than having to download, unzip and FTP up to the correct folder on the server.  But I digress…

Having installed Fixed Social Buttons, a new option should appear in the Admin Panel under Settings.

Fixed Social Buttons is a plugin for WordPress sites that adds buttons for popular social bookmarking sites to your wordpress pages.  Buttons may be added either horizontally or vertically and at the top or bottom of the page.The Settings couldn’t be easier to understand.  You can choose the style and size of the buttons to use, which buttons to show – currently 11 (Flickr, Delicious, Digg, Webonews, Linkedin, Myspace, Reddit, Technorati, Facebook, Twitter, and lastly subscribe to RSS feed ), whether they should appear at the Top or Bottom of the page, and whether they should be shown as Vertical or Horizontal.

You can also specify whether the links are to open in a new window or not, whether to make the links Follow or No Follow, and if you are sharing to Flickr or Twitter, add your profile details.

It’s as simple as that – simple and effective.  I hope you find this useful.
See also the Fixed Social Buttons plugin page.