Otherwise, yes, change the publication date.
If you want to go totally manual on post ordering, see https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search/order+posts
]]>I do not wish to make my posts sticky. Some of them I may need to bump to the front page when more information relative to the topic becomes available. I’d rather not use more plugins so I take it the only alternative is to alter the timestamp?
Do you know if this has any negative affect on Google and if this is indeed the standard way to go about doing this?
Kind regards
Dan