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One aspect of using Posts in WordPress might impact how they are arranged in the Recent Posts section or elsewhere on your Apollo 2 website. This particular aspect is referred to as a "Sticky." A Sticky is a tool that allows a post to stay at the top of a blog, essentially giving it priority in the display order. You can make a post a Sticky or remove its Sticky status by adjusting the settings within the post's panel on the right side.
Enabling the Sticky option will mark the post as important, causing it to be featured among the first three cards in the Recent Posts section. On the other hand, disabling the Sticky option will arrange the post based on its publication date, just like all the other posts.
You can easily identify which posts have been made Sticky by looking at the text on the right side of each post on the Posts page in the dashboard.
To toggle this feature on or off, edit the post and check or uncheck the box next to "Stick to the top of the blog" in the post's settings.

A web page's address, also known as its URL, can be modified to something different from the automatically generated one that WordPress creates based on the page's title. This process involves editing the "slug" in the page's "permalink."

To modify the slug, open the page for editing and click on the URL in the panel on the right side of the page's settings. This action triggers a small pop-up window with a field labeled "Permalink." In this field, you have the option to adjust the URL to better suit your preferences.

For instance, let's say I have a webpage dedicated to a student organization called "The Gator Undergraduate Research Consortium." However, the organization is commonly referred to by its abbreviation, "GURC." Instead of using a lengthy URL that reflects the full organization name, I can shorten it to "/gurc" for simplicity. By editing the permalink and replacing the lengthy slug with "gurc," visitors can access the page by typing "mysite.ufl.edu/gurc" in their web browser.

This practice can be particularly useful for printed materials or when promoting events that require a straightforward URL to share with attendees.

Copying your website's main page involves a few extra steps that might not be immediately clear. By following this procedure, you'll be able to duplicate the homepage and make edits to experiment with new updates, all while retaining the original content. It's important to note that this specific process isn't necessary for duplicating most of your other pages.

1. Locate the page labeled as the "Front Page" for your website in the list of pages on the Dashboard. The "Front Page" designation will be visible to the right of the page's title, indicating that it's your current homepage.
2. Hover your mouse over the page's title and select the "Duplicate" option from the menu that appears just below the title. This option can be found at the right-end of the menu. This action will generate a draft duplicate of the page.
3. Before you start editing the draft page, hover over its title and choose the "Quick Edit" option. This will bring up some page settings that need to be adjusted.
4. In the "Template" setting, choose the "Homepage" option. Save your changes by clicking the "Update" button.

With these steps completed, you're now free to make edits to your draft homepage, and all the copied information will be available for your modifications. Skipping these steps could lead to content loss on the draft page. If that happens, you can still use this process to create a new duplicate of your homepage!