Changelog: Pin posts you want to feature to the top of your profile feed

Publish Date: Jul 12 '19

84 15

If you go to my profile, you can see it in action:

Ben Halpern

A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny.

DEV now allows you to pin up to five posts at the top of your profile feed, in case you want to show off your best writing to any visitors.

In order to pin a post, click on the Manage button on your posts and then click Pin to Profile. We will also probably add this to more quickly accessible area in the future.

Currently the five posts display chronologically but I think we could follow up with giving more control here. This is also a precursor to a possible design adjustment which would highlight your pins in a different format.

Happy coding!

Comments 15 total

Juha-Matti SantalaJul 12, 2019
How do I pin posts, I couldn't find that anywhere on my profile nor on my dashboard?

edit I found it! I had to open a post, choose Manage and there it was!
- Drew TownJul 12, 2019
  
  Thanks! It wasn't obvious to me either. It'd be nice to see this in the "..." menu on the dashboard.
  - Ben HalpernJul 12, 2019
    My bad. I didn't even include that in the post. Edited.
  - Juha-Matti SantalaJul 12, 2019
    That's where I went to look first too!
DesiJul 12, 2019

Yes! I've been waiting for this!
- Ben HalpernJul 12, 2019
  
  Yay!
LaurieJul 12, 2019

This is awesome!
Gift EgwuenuJul 12, 2019

Awesome feature!!
Ben HalpernJul 12, 2019
Yeah, if I recall this might only trigger an async cache which is probably not right.

Aggressive caching is definitely where we over-optimize and just trying to get it to work right, you know those hard parts of computer programming 😄
Alex AntraJul 13, 2019

Could we add a filter to our dashboard to just see pinned posts?
- Ben HalpernJul 13, 2019
  
  Good idea!
Annie Taylor ChenMay 11, 2022
can we have an enable/disable comments/discussion button, so my profile can just focus on my posts only?
- AmrinJan 29, 2023
  that's not possible, if you want that then build a different client using dev.to api. even though that won't as much traffic as dev. but you'll be able to show people your blog.
AmrinJan 29, 2023
Very helpful Ben. :)

Add comment

Ben Halpern @ben