Change posting date
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Is it possible to change and/or manually enter the date of a blog post? Alternatively, is there any way to attach a different date to a post, and have THAT date correspond to the calendar instead of the actual date of posting?
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Posts are included in category lists, archives, and feeds. Posts are always associated with a date, which is included in the URL. Editing the URL date/timestamps on posts is NOT recommended. It means that you will create a “404” (page not found) for anyone using the original URL and that means every who is referred through a search engine to that post. Don’t do it!
Also note that in the past we had opportunistic members who were trying to game their post positioning in the global tag pages but editing date/timestamps. Staff dealt with this. It makes no difference how many times one changes that date.timestamp the post will only display under the original date/timestamp.
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Thanks timethief. I can see why editing the date/timestamp on a
post is not recommended. Is there any way to leave that date
alone but attach another separate date to the post, in a header
or some such? We’re trying to archive entries from dated
newsletters and have them searchable by newsletter date… -
You can edit in a date into the body of the post, for example at the end of the post. I think a better approach maybe to use Categories and sub-categories but I don’t know for sure. Try a dry run in your test blog and see if this would work for you:
Category > Newsletters 2010
Sub-categories
> volume 1
> volume 2
etc.Category > Newsletters 2009
Sub-categories
> volume 1
> volume 2
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