Publish Sticky Post With No Date
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Hi: Is there any way to not have the date not appear with our sticky post on the first page of our blog? As it is, new readers get the impression that we haven’t posted since November 22.
Thanks a lot.
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Please paste the exact URL of your blog when asking questions here (or link your nickname to your blog as explained in the Sticky “8 Things to Know“). We cannot help you without that.
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Sorry. It’s http://sexistremarks.wordpress.com/. (How odd–when you post a question at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/questions, it asks you to “select the blog you need help with.” I assumed that would show up in my post.)
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@syoder1: No, that’s only for detecting and auto-responding to wp.ORG visitors who often come here instead of their own forum. And it’s a very new feature, still under development.
As for your question, as far as I know you cannot remove the date. Jennifer’s workaround would work in a blog in which the post data are at the bottom, which is not your case; and in my opinion it would defy the purpose of a sticky anyway. Since the text isn’t very long, you could try putting it in a text widget instead (on top of all others in the sidebar).
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No, pan. The idea was to make the sticky short enough so that visitors would be able to see the next post down before the fold. But a text widget would work. :)
@syoder1-please consider linking your blog to your username. Makes finding the blog in question much easier. Instructions here 8 Things To Know Before Posting in WordPress.Com Forums
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Thanks for both of your efforts. I tried the more tag solution, but that simply inserted “Read more of this entry” at the very end of the sticky post. The post date still appeared at the top. (I’ve since updated the post date to reflect today’s date.)
If I’m understanding panaghiotisadam correctly, the text widget option won’t be a solution for us. We do not want our lead text in the sidebar, which would push down everything else on our sidebar and be unsightly.
If you have any other thoughts, feel free to let me know. Otherwise I will continue to manually update the post date for the sticky every day.
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I have an idea that if you changed to a theme with a custom header that you could make a GIF image of that post. If you want your readers to see it all the time, it would be readable and undated.
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1tess’ solution might be a good one for the long term. We’re not quite at a level of skill yet where we can do that, but will keep that in our back pocket.
Thanks for the new suggestion panaghiotisadam, we’ll consider that too.
You guys are great! (Even when the answer is that there’s no easy answer.)
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@syoder1-I can clearly see that the sticky is above a newly updated post even without scrolling down; the whole point of a sticky is having it above the most recent post.
Just a thought, but if the sticky isn’t doing it for you, maybe switch to a theme that has tabbed navigation and use a static front page to your blog if you want to have that message be the first thing that your visitors see when they land on your site. http://support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
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