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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 24 May 2007 23:16:20 +0000

You publish a new post with a date, say, three months ago, but the post is new? And it’s not listed in the archives or categories? Hmmm? I’ve done that before and had no problem. That sounds like a job for the WordPress Support Forums as you may have more going on. It could be anything from a corrupted version of WordPress you are using (something didn’t upload right and now you are finding it), a Plugin, or your database tables could be screwed up. Or you might not have put the post in the category. Did you double check that? I’ve done that. Feel so dumb! But it happens.

Check with the Support Forum and give them all the information you can like version number and if you are using any site map or archives Plugins. This is a strange one.

By: palurie

palurie — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:41:26 +0000

Lorelle!

what about when one inserts backdated posts, and they appear in the chronological correct order, but the Categories & archives pages don’t reflect their existence?

A search of the site DOES give the term listedin one of the posts, but nowhere else!

Thanks
Peter

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Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:42:47 +0000

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By: Aleister

Aleister — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 01:29:40 +0000

Removing the dates sounds very interesting. I think it would work quite nicely for my situation. Definitly something to think about. For my scripts and things that are updated, I have the dates in the changelog of course, but I may stick it up top as well.

Thanks for your thoughts.. some nice ideas there

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:42:18 +0000

Hmm, the timestamp issue is a good one. If you have a prominent post meta data section or post date with a lot of emphasis on “This post was published on this date”, and you are using the full version of WordPress, you might want to consider using a WordPress Plugin that either changes or adds a second date for “date post modified”. I’ve used Nick Momrik’s Last Modified WordPress Plugin for over a year and love it. It allows me to list not only the original post date, but the date the post was last updated or modified. That might work.

You can also remove date references from your posts. A lot of the writing I do is timeless. I don’t care if the reader found it in 1996 or 2006, it will is valid for the most part. When I switched main site to WordPress, I didn’t have dates on my posts, so I just made a lot of them up, partly from notes and guess work. I had to make decisions in my WordPress Theme about how I wanted to showcase the dates and if they were really important or not. I decided they weren’t, so I eliminated the original post date and listed the date updated or modified and buried the information in the post data section at the bottom of my posts.

Very good point. If you have scripts and programs that offer timely updates, I recommend that you put an obvious Updated: April 21, 2005 date information at the top of your post so people will know they are reading timely information, and change it accordingly when you update the post. And give some thought as to how you handle dates in your web page design.

By: Aleister

Aleister — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:33:27 +0000

I have a little WP site with scripts and WordPress plugins which I am often updating. I was actually wondering this same thing (post updates or update posts) a moment ago, and I came upon this page.

Right now I update my posts - adding the new info, updating the changelog, etc. So my links always point to the up-to-date information. I think I am just secretly worried that a user will find an older version of a plugin, try it out, and never know the joys of my latest version! *grin*

As a previous poster mentioned, my page is not really a standard blog, but more of a collection of articles and resources, so I think it is fine to update the posts. I just do not see what good it would be to have 10+ posts on a single script, and constantly be updating them all to point back around in circles to the correct one. *shrug*

One question I have been debating though is whether or not to update the timestamp on a post when I update the script.

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By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:09:00 +0000

The date is an important element of a post. I’m all for maintaining an uptodate blog, but as far as going back and changing all outdated posts? No dice.

Of course, your blog is much more subject oriented than mine, so it makes sense that you want the material you’ve posted to be as close to a reference as possible for WPers.