Make a sticky post in blogspot

by Ankur Jain on June 8, 2008

There can be valid reasons when you wish to make a post which sticks on the home page of your blog. Follow the steps below:

1) Go To “Edit Posts” imagefor the post that you want to make sticky.

2) Click on “Post Options”. You will see options as shown in this screenshot.

3) Change the “Post date” to any future date.

4) You are done.

After making a post sticky if you try installing Windows Live Writer. You would get the following error.

The style template used for editing your weblog posts could not be downloaded.You will be able to post to this Weblog, but the editor will not use your blog’s style.

While configuring your blog, WLW makes a temporary post on your blog. Now since you have made one of the posts sticky. WLW would not be able to find the temporary post it has posted and hence will throw the error shown above.

A simple solution is:

  1. Either configure WLW before making your post sticky. OR
  2. Change the date of your sticky post to current date and time. Configure WLW. Change the date again to future.

{ 16 comments… read them below or add one }

Winning Startups July 4, 2008 at 5:15 AM

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admin July 4, 2008 at 8:58 AM

Thanks for your comment Winning Startups!

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exinco July 29, 2008 at 1:44 AM

good idea. thanks for this small but important

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SAMMY|Make Money Online January 4, 2009 at 7:08 PM

Hello,

Nice trick but will it not affect on how google will index the post since it has a future date already?

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ROW January 4, 2009 at 11:39 PM

@SAMMY: No not at all. Google doesn’t take into consideration the “printed date” for indexing purposes.

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Faraz March 29, 2009 at 4:12 PM

Thanks for sharing this tip.

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ROW March 29, 2009 at 10:28 PM

You ‘re welcome Faraz.

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Acidage June 6, 2009 at 5:48 PM

Oh my god… Wat a trick :D

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Adam Bean September 28, 2009 at 4:21 PM

Cheers for that. I don’t use blogger a lot, but that helped me quickly and simple . Thanks Again

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Faraz January 5, 2010 at 12:29 PM

Great Information.. Thanks..

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paresh February 15, 2010 at 5:12 PM

Great work Thanks……………..

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Chin chin March 8, 2010 at 12:02 PM

Thanks for the info. I came to the right place to find how to do this.

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leya cullen September 12, 2010 at 10:17 AM

thanks a lot..

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Arun April 27, 2011 at 7:14 AM

man you did that awesome…. Excellent proficiency

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Jakob Hardon July 18, 2011 at 4:03 PM

Nice idea…but I still get this error even though my blogger blog does NOT have a sticky page/post…it’s a brand new blog! :-(

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