Pinning content

Pin important content to the top of a channel's feed. This content will stay at the top of the feed as newer content is published.

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Considerations and caveats

  • Who can do this: You must have at least Edit access to content to pin it.

  • Content that supports being pinned: You can pin the following content types:

    • Blog articles
    • Forum posts

  • Enabling pinning: Pinning must be enabled on a channel; see enabling and disabling pinning on Blog and Forum channels.

  • Pinned content in widgets: Pinned content will only appear pinned in the following widgets (The Show pinned items layout option of these widgets controls whether pinned content is pinned in the widget.):

How to pin content 

Using the Actions menu:

  1. Go to the content that you want to pin.
  2. Select Igloo_ActionsButton_CogIconSmall.png Actions followed by Pin.
  3. (Optional) To set when the content becomes unpinned, select This pin will expire on followed by the date using the provided calendar.
  4. Select Pin.

By editing the content:

  1. Go to the content that you want to pin.
  2. Select Actions followed by Pin.
  3. Select Advanced Options.
  4. Under Pinning, select Pin this content.
  5. (Optional) To set when the content becomes unpinned, select the Pin Expiry followed by the date using the provided calendar. 
  6. Select Save changes.