How can I keep one specific article always on top on the front page?

Question

On my joomla website, I'd like to have a "about our company" article always be the first article on the front page. I want the other articles to shift down in position as new articles are added, but to keep the "about our company" one constantly on top. I tried setting the order of that article on the front page manager to -1, but it still shifted down when I added a new article. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Unless you find an adequate plugin for this specific need, I'm afraid you have to manually modify the template.

Answer 2

Depending on the setup, you can use the section or category info as a "fake" article. Enable showing the section/category description in the menu item (it's off by default) and you'll have a text that is always at the top.

Answer 3

You could write that info in a module and publish that module in a position that shows up before the component.

Answer 4

Do you have the front page sorted by date? If you do then make the about us article have a created date of 2099-01-01 and make sure you switch off show date for that article

Answer 5

Hi there,

I was struggelng with the same issue,... and have found the solution in the joomla documentation.

In the frontpage manager set order number for the article that you want to be "always-on-top" to -1 (minus one). This will make sure it will always have a lower order number than the other articles, even when other people submit articles.