Date of your posts
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I’m just curious why it is possible to change the date of your posts after you have published them.
Doesn’t this make it possible to publish something that isnt yours, set a date way earlier than the original and then claim that you were first?
Peace
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I suppose someone could do that and I’m not sure if wordpress records a “creation” date with the other data or not.
I’ll tag this for staff attention since they are the only ones that can answer this.
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A quick look at the database stuff for posts in the .ORG codex is showing a “post date” and a “modification date” but no creation date.
Of course having a creation date doesn’t mean anything either since they could claim that they had written it earlier in perhaps another program and then just transferred it to a post and set the date back to when they originally wrote it.
Interesting dilemma.
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The thing I’m a bit dissatisfied with is that I can send a post today and make it look like I’ve written it a month ago.
My wish is that if you post something today, then it should be with todays date, and then if you change it in future the modification date should be visible.
The problem is actually not about when I have written what, (I know allt hat) it’s about how it should be presented and visible to all readers, especially in a copyright aspect. -
Hello,
I am looking to relocate posts from an earlier date and a different site. I want to change the creation date to an earlier one. How do i do that?Thanks,
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Of what I know is that I just have to go to my posts, select edit and set a new date, even time if I would like to. And then the new date will be there. The relocating happens automatically when you change the date.
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I’m just curious why it is possible to change the date of your posts after you have published them.
That’s been a feature in WordPress for quite some time. It’s just another way to give the author full control over their content. Most recently, it has been used by folks to manipulate WordPress’s reverse chronological order into an order they want.
Doesn’t this make it possible to publish something that isnt yours, set a date way earlier than the original and then claim that you were first?
I suppose that could be a malicious use of it, but there are plenty of ways to prove yourself as the original owner in a court of law.
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hello,
i changed the date and time of the following post because i wanted to space out the frequency of entries ~ but when it didn’t appear in “topics” i changed it back to its initial date. it still isn’t appearing in the topics so i’d appreciate any help with this
thanks!
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never mind, i published it around 8pm UT and it seems to have dated itself 9 hours earlier… i found it under the less populated “canning” topic
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This article clearly explains why I don’t change date stamps on my published posts. The last thing I want to do is create a 404 (page not found) errors in Google search results and in search box results on my blog. Avoid creating 404 pages
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thanks ~ i know now that was a stupid mistake, just to have my entries more evenly spaced apart …….. oh well live and learn
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One of my blogs failed to import from blogger. It dates back to 2007 so I am manually importing the posts but I can set them correctly to when they were written.
In which case, it is a feature that works well for me in this case.
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roughseasinthemed, is it ok to ask why you decided to change from the earlier blog to wordpress? :)
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