Sticky posts are an important part of any WordPress blog’s sidebar, but they can quickly clutter up your post listing page if you have too many of them or if they aren’t displayed in the right way. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to display the latest sticky posts in WordPress in two different ways, whether you have one sticky post on your site or multiple sticky posts within a custom post type that you created specifically for this purpose.
Add Functionality with Plugins
There are a number of plugins available that will automatically pull sticky posts down from your RSS feed and display them on your homepage. The free plugin RSS Scroll will do just that, though it’s not exactly pretty. A more attractive option is the Recent Post Widget, which is free for personal use but requires an upgrade for commercial sites. If you don’t want to rely on a plugin, you can add code directly into your theme files using hooks, and if you know how to do so, by all means, go ahead!
Customize Your Menus
To display the latest Sticky Posts, you’ll need to customize your menus. First, go into Appearance > Menus and create a new menu. Give it a name (like Sticky Posts) and drag it where you want it on your site. Next, click on Screen Options and make sure that Customize Top Level Menu Items are checked. Click Save Changes. Finally, go into Appearance > Widgets and drag a Recent Post widget onto your header. Make sure that recent posts are selected from the drop-down menu next to Show posts from: and then check Stick this widget at the beginning of The sidebar widgets area so that it appears before all other widgets. Click Save Changes when you are done. You should now see an updated list of sticky posts at the top of your sidebar!
Add logic using hooks
Depending on your theme, there are a few different ways to display sticky posts. When it comes to themes with built-in support for displaying and ordering sticky posts, you’ll need to add logic that checks whether or not a post is sticky and then displays it accordingly. This can be done using hooks within your theme files. For example, let’s say we want to use our own CSS class to style sticky posts differently from non-sticky ones.
Debugging Common Problems
To display the latest sticky posts custom post type, you’ll need to edit your theme’s template files. If you aren’t comfortable doing that, there are a few plugins that can help. The easiest is probably WP-Sticky (free), which automatically adds a sticky post block at the top of your homepage, with links to all of your recent sticky posts. It also includes an option for displaying multiple stickies on your homepage.
Conclusion
That’s how you can display sticky posts on your website. If you want your visitors to be happy, try using one of these plugins. They’re easy to use and they make your site look more professional. You don’t have an excuse not to do it anymore. It doesn’t matter if you run a small personal site or a big business website. all sites need great content that their users will love. And that means being able to display sticky posts.
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