A Remarkable Wordpress Sticky Plugin Alternative

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If you run a blog powered by Wordpress, you have an option to install a Sticky plugins that causes a certain post to stay on top of your home page.

There are several Sticky Plugins and here’s the one called Adhesive.

But …

I have never used them. Because I want to control exactly what’s happening. Therefore I simply add an extra webpage to my blog that I can fill with whatever I want by just using a little bit of HTML.

And it’s really easy to do that in the standard Kubrick theme.

Just find index.php in wp-content/themes/default and make a safety copy first.
Then open index.php in your text editor.

In index.php the first two lines say
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>

After that, you just add:

<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() ) {
readfile( ’somefile.php’);
}?>

and upload.

Then create the page called somefile.php with whatever you like and upload it to your root directory.
You can include a sign up form there or a just link to it. Personally I prefer separate sign up forms, because you can use them everywhere!

You could also create a link in your sidebar pointing to the sign up form that shows up on every page except the home page.

Just add a link in the sidebar (preferably just under your ‘home page’
link:

<? if (!is_home()) {
echo “<p><a href=\”#ref\” onclick=\”window.open(’http://yourdomain.com/yoursignupform.php’,
‘520′,’toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,
resizable=yes,width=530, height=680′)\”>Receive Updates By
Email</a><br /><strong>Plus Your Incentive For
Signing Up</strong></p>”;
}
?>

Yeah, it’s a pop up window. You can make it an ordinary one.
Of course you have to replace http://yourdomain.com/yoursignupform.php by the path to your sign up form.
And you have to take the line breaks out that I had to insert to display this properly.

Try it.
Don’t forget, always create a safety copy first so you can restore the situation if anything goes wrong.

P.S.
Many people ask questions about adding a form to their blog.
You can add one using the instructions above, but Karl Warren has created a plugin to add an opt-in form that you may want to check out.

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