can posts displayed within the recent posts widget be 'sticky'?

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  westwonders · Member · Jun 27, 2012 at 8:30 am

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  Dear WordPress

  I have two sticky posts. I expected they would stay in my recent posts widget on the right of my blog but they don’t. Does the sticky feature only apply to the visibility on the front page rather than within the widget?

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  Hazel
  Blog url: http://westwonders.wordpress.com/

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  kardotim · Member · Jun 27, 2012 at 12:54 pm

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  I’m sorry, the widget is made not to show sticky posts. The sticky post feature is only meant for posts on the front page.

  By default, WordPress.com blogs display posts in reverse chronological order on the home page with the latest post at the top. There isn’t a way to display posts in chronological order, but you can mark some posts as Sticky to make them appear above the other posts. They will stay at the top of your posts until you uncheck that option on the Edit screen for that post.

  You can mark a post as sticky by checking the option that says “Stick this post to the front page” in the Publish settings on any post.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts