“How do I order posts so a particular one comes up first every time? Can I do it after the fact or do I need to delete and start over? I don’t understand how to avoid dating the posts on the day they are written.”
Posting! Yay, I love talking about posting because it’s where I hope you will be spending most of your time after you conquer the technology “how-to” gremlins.
Remember that Blogs order posts in reverse chronological order. In other words, your lastest blog post will show
up first with earlier posts displaying below.
Here are some step-by-step guidelines to help you get a specific Blogger post to “stick” to the top. In order for a post to be “always on top,” it needs to have the post date modified to a future date, after it’s been published.
Post Options
Step 1. Create your post and publish it. Yes, go ahead publish it NOW!
Step 2. Edit your post’s publish date to somewhere waaaay in the future. I like 2012 since everyone thinks the world is ending.
Changing Your Posts Original Publish Date
Don’t remember how to change your post’s date?
- From the Post tab, select Edit Posts.
- From Edit Posts, select Edit for the post you’d like to modify.
- Scroll down the page and just above the orange Publish button is the Post Options link, click it to untuck the Post Options dialog!
- Mark the “Post date and time” fields to some future date (12/12/12) :oD
If you do not first publish the post immediately using the current date, Blogger will think you are scheduling a post for automatic publishing (setting a post to publish while you’re on vacation) and it will appear in the “Scheduled” column. This is why it’s important to create the post and publish it. Then edit the post and change the date to a future date.
If You Are Building A “Website”
If you are heading down the website path instead of the blogger path, you can control the number of posts that show up when people land on the main landing page of your web presence.
- From the Settings tab > Formatting > Show (it’s the very first setting on this page).
If you set the dropdown to “1,” and then set your primary post’s date to the future, it will always be the first page your readers see, but they will see nothing else (unless they navigate to another post using a gadget you’ve set up).
If You Are Building A Blog
If you are heading down the blogger path, simply edit your primary post’s date to a future date and do nothing else. But remember; publish first with current date, then edit the post with a future date.
Happy posting!
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