I change the publishing date to back date but in preview it shows current date and not the one I selected under publishing.
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I change the publishing date to back date but in preview it shows current date and not the one I selected under publishing.
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Hi,
Before checking the preview, did you either a. update the post, if already published, after backdating, or b. save the draft post, if unpublished, after backdating?
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I recognize that saving the change before viewing the preview seems contrary to the purpose, but in tests I found it necessary to save a publish date change in each case, draft and published, before seeing the change reflected in the preview.
Let me call for staff attention in case I’ve missed anything significant. Staff will respond here.
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Hey there,
Happy to take a look at this – what is the post you’re working on and what is the desired date?
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Sorry for late response, but I didn’t get this response anywhere in my email. For the response to your point, I tried several dates from past and saved the blog draft (it isn’t published, so I want to check before it goes public) but whenever I go for preview, it shows current date at the bottom of the blog which means the back dating process or option is broken. And I used this reference earlier and even now, “https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-back-date-your-wordpress-posts/”. I hope you will resolve this ASAP because this thing is broken since the day I posted it.
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Sorry for late response, but I didn’t get this response anywhere in my email. For the response to your point, I tried several dates from past and saved the blog draft (it isn’t published, so I want to check before it goes public) but whenever I go for preview, it shows current date at the bottom of the blog which means the back dating process or option is broken. And I used this reference earlier and even now, “https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-back-date-your-wordpress-posts/”. I hope you will resolve this ASAP because this thing is broken since the day I posted it.
For anything personal such as what you are asking, you can ask me somewhere in private like DM or private WordPress messaging or email. I am not comfortable talking about this in public.
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Hey there! You should get new response notifications if you’re following this thread. Let us know if you don’t get this one.
As support staff I can see several draft posts on the site you listed. Can you let us know which one is giving you trouble with the date, and let us know what date it should show? We’d like to take a look at what you’re seeing. Thanks in advance.
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I have checked again before writing this response to your comment and see that the bug for any other date than current one is still there. If I have a post and choose any random date from past (backdating) and then save the draft and then preview the post, it still shows the current date at the bottom and not the one set up by me. I need ASAP help so that I can publish the site and blog posts with manual dates.
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We still need to know which draft post is the one that is giving you trouble with the date and what date it should have. Anyone designated as “Staff” here in the forums are WordPress.com Support staff and has access to your site’s backend.
We don’t have private messaging and email support is limited to accounts with paid upgrades, but I’m sure we can get things sorted here in the public forums.
Thanks!
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In simple words, my problem is still unresolved. And by asking the same thing again and again when I clearly stated that the issue is with all the posts (in my draft), asking about specific is just time wastage. On a side note, email support was there before (I am talking about 2012 and 2015), don’t know why you put it up in paid. Anyway, I won’t be posting or revealing anything personal here because this forum and comments here are in public (and I am not comfortable with that), not locked between the user and staff team, so it would be best to see it yourself if you have access to my account. I am waiting this to resolve ASAP. Waiting.
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Understandable. Can you confirm whether you are using this editor when writing?
https://varniitworkspace.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=post&calypsoify=1
If you are using a different link, or an app, can you send that info?
I actually tried to test this (on my own site, of course) with a backdated post just now. I set the back date, typed the post, clicked publish. I got a confirmation box with the correct published date. I am using Chrome on Mac, both current.
Earlier I had asked what date should show, and on which draft. Perhaps it would be easier to set up a test draft for us to tinker with.
The goal is to be able to duplicate the issue you’re seeing, so we can help find a solution.
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You have my account access, content access and still doubtful about the issue I have put up here. If I had created WP or this new garbage and useless editor, I would have figured out the problem, but since I can’t, you need to find it. It is being 2 weeks plus into third week since my issue posting, and I am constantly been asked same thing again and again of which post, what date when you can actually check with any post (draft posts) and take any date from past that isn’t current or present. But you aren’t looking beyond the ABC.
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Hi, I’ve been testing this out, checking both your own site and several test sites – this seems to be a bizarre combination of the way that classic themes (which do not use the new Site Editor) work, and the WordPress software in and of itself. It does not happen with newer themes that use the Site Editor, as far as I can see in my tests.
I’ve filed a report for this, but the only work-around at this time is to switch to a theme compatible with the Site Editor.
I do understand if you prefer not to switch themes; please be assured that this issue only comes up when previewing drafts – when the post is actually published on your desired date, the date appears correctly.
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I feel so sorry to see WP going to this level. If I had to find bugs and other issues and team behind this WP and new changes done without checking with other departments such as themes and editor.
Since the day your team launched the new editor, adding an image after the title is next to impossible until and unless I don’t type something. In the old editor, it was all easy and seamless.
And about the themes you are talking about, I understand this, but how would I know which one is compatible and isn’t? Also, why themes of all types aren’t checked before the new editor and new WP is forced blindly? And the theme I want is simple as per my content, not something that is irregular and unsuitable.
Also, while I am writing this, I noticed another bug.
If you have some posts in draft and choose any backdate to publish it, but not publish it but preview it, you will see the current date. This was the actually main concern of this thread.
Now comes the second bug, if you publish anyone of those draft posts in public with no changes done (like the backdating done previously), you will see those published posts, in current date and time, not the one you select in the editor.
I really love WP, but these changes done in the name of upgrading and betterment and no proper support system to highlight or talk to someone, particularly one-on-one, really makes me wonder if WP (Automatic) is here to stay or not because I use other Automatic services for years such as simplenote and pocketcasts.
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To clarify, we (Automattic) do not create the WordPress software. That’s made by the open-source project over at WordPress.org and where the development direction happens.
We’re following the direction of what the WordPress open-source project is moving towards. The Block editor (also known as “Gutenberg”) was their first step in modernizing WordPress. Here’s a quote from their FAQ: https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/handbook/faq/
“Gutenberg” is the project’s name to create a new editor experience for WordPress — contributors have been working on it since January 2017 and it’s one of the most significant changes to WordPress in years. It’s built on the idea of using “blocks” to write and design posts and pages. This will serve as the foundation for future improvements to WordPress, including blocks as a way not just to design posts and pages but also entire sites. The overall goal is to simplify the first-time user experience of WordPress — for those who are writing, editing, publishing, and designing web pages. The editing experience is intended to give users a better visual representation of what their post or page will look like when they hit publish.
Since the development of the WordPress software is moving in this direction, when new versions of the software are released, we update the software here at WordPress.com.
Regarding your question on how to know which themes support the new block editor, you can filter that in the theme directly for “block editor”:
https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/block-editor-styles
I hope that clarifies things.
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None of my points esp., related to bugs are answered or resolved which brings me to ask as to why I had to post in forum when the main problem would remain unresolved?
I left WP back in 2017 because of these same garbage and unwanted updates that broke things that were alright for medium, and I guess, I should from next year, consider move to something else because WP isn’t keeping up with it should have been. I bet next destruction would be coming with simplenote and pocketcasts, isn’t it?
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