How do I display featured content on the home page?

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  themedthinking · Member · Nov 13, 2011 at 9:21 am

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  I would like to edit my homepage, so that rather than (just) displaying my most recent posts, i can also have a “featured content” box where I link to/display a specific post (even if it’s from far back in time).

  Any suggestions on how I might do that?

  In general, I don’t really see options for changing or editing preferences for the home page.

  Thank you in advance!
  Blog url: http://themedthinking.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 13, 2011 at 8:03 pm

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  There’s no direct way to do that, but try setting your featured posts as Sticky posts: http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts

  This will display them above all others, and some themes offer different styling for Sticky posts.

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  themedthinking · Member · Nov 13, 2011 at 9:20 pm

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  Thanks!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 13, 2011 at 9:23 pm

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  You’re welcome!

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  themedthinking · Member · Nov 14, 2011 at 8:23 am

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  Another question:

  How do I hide the “tags” in my posts. I don’t need the tags to be visible to readers, and they just take up space on the bottom.

  I don’t see an option on my dashboard to hide them.

  Any advice?

  Thanks!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 14, 2011 at 10:15 pm

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  There’s no direct way to hide them, but if you have a Custom Design upgrade, you can hide them via CSS.