Change post date without changing post url
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Hi all,
probably this is a common question, but I can’t find the correct keywords for the search function.On my blog (http://marcodifresco.wordpress.com/) I post both news and guides; since I write seldomly, sometime I do not post for few days.
My plan for when I don’t have anything new to write is to bring up some old post (a guide mainly). Unfortunatelly the problem is that if I change the date of a post, the url will be changed as well therefore breaking any existing link to that post.
So I am looking for a way to change the time/date of a post without changing the url.
Thank in advance.
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To solve this, whenever you link to a post, link to it using the non-date URL. So if you have a post http://marcodifresco.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/whatever/, then link to it as http://marcodifresco.wordpress.com/whatever/ and WordPress will be smart enough to redirect to your date-preference URL. If you’re concerned about external links from people, then I don’t know what to suggest because if you move a post around then the old external links to it will break and you have no recourse there.
Bringing up an old post by changing the date just to give the appearance of fresh content is probably not a good idea.
So your ultimate solution is to not use dates in your URL preferences at all. If you change it in your settings, nothing will break on your blog, just external links, if you can live with that.
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I’m afraid that can’t be done. The date is part of the URL. That’s the whole idea of a blog. What you may be looking for is what is referred to as a “sticky” post or “featured” post. That is not possible in wordpress.com, but it would be a nice feature to have.
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“Huh? Can I use URL w/o dates in wordpress.com?”
Yes, just try it. Take a URL with a date, copy it, paste it into a new browser window, and remove the date parts, leave the post name. Watch what happens.
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OK, just did. Works. Cool. But what if you have two posts with the exact same title on different dates? Not very likely, though.
Anyways…this still doesn’t solve marco’s problem, does it? As I understand it he wants the old post to appear above the more recent posts.
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The problem of the external links lies on the search engine results; so I assume they will be broken. :-/
Well … I will take it as an incentive to write more often. :-)
Bringing up an old post by changing the date just to give the appearance of fresh content is probably not a good idea.
I know and as a matter of fact I was planning to use the questioned feature only on my guides and not for the news I wrote; and actually I was planning to bring them up just as time filler rather than claiming them as fresh content (actually I am taking the habit to explicitly state if a post’s content has been update, so if the statement is missing my regular readers will know that no changes have been made).
I want to thank you all for the answers.
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