Posts using draft date, not publishing date
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I’ve had this problem a few times. I publish a post from a draft started several months ago, and instead of publishing on today’s date it uses the date that I first created the post. I changed it by scheduling the post for the current time, but it means that my e-mail subscribers get an e-mail with a link that doesn’t work. I’m not sure why this keeps happening, or if there’s anything I can do to prevent it (besides just always scheduling my posts instead of trying to publish them as soon as I’m finished writing).
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Hey there,
So before publishing a draft post, do you click the edit link next to publish immediately and check if it is at the most current date/time? Does it show the current date/time or the original creation date?
I just checked a draft post of yours and it is set to publish at the current time you click the publish button. Is that what you see before publishing but it publishes at an earlier date?
Let me know, I’d like to look further into this for you. Thanks!
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I haven’t been checking the link, but I will try that in the future. The weird thing is it doesn’t happen all the time; it happened three or four posts ago (I can’t remember which one, unfortunately), but the last couple have been ok. Looking at the drafts I’ve got going at the moment, “An Island to Oneself” appears to have updated with the most recent date it was edited (yesterday), while “Doctor to the Islands” has the date I started writing it (September 8) and “The Frisbies of the South Seas” says September 15. It’s fairly baffling. Which draft did you check? None of the ones I’ve looked at seem to be set up to publish on the date I click publish. Thanks so much for your help with this.
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I checked An Island to Oneself – it looked fine for me. I just checked a few others and they looked good too. They were all drafts created within the last few months, however.
That is pretty weird. If you would like, keep me updated before publishing one of your other drafts. I would like to see what date it is set to before you publish.
Thanks!
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Thanks again for your help! I’ve got my next post, “Doctor to the Islands”, ready to go. I want to post it on Tuesday or Wednesday next week; I was going to schedule it, but thought you might want to take a look at it first and/or have me post it by hitting the publish button to see if the problem happens again. From my end, it looks like it’s set to publish with a date of September 8, 2015. That’s the date in the post URL and also if I click the calendar to schedule it, that’s the date showing there. If I schedule it for next week that will obviously wipe it out, but I suspect that if I just click “publish” it will do the back-dating thing again.
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Hi there,
Yeah, I see the same thing on my end. I have an unpublished draft from back in September as well, but under my blog it still says to publish immediately.
Did you happen to originally schedule the blog to post on September 8th but didn’t finish it on time? The only thing I figure would cause this is that you changed the date and time but never got around to actually publish the post – but even though it is now past that date, the setting is still at the time you originally set it up for.
Let me know if that is the case. Otherwise, I’m going to report this internally to see if we can get down the cause of the issue.
Thanks!
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Nope, I never scheduled it; I didn’t intend to publish it in September. I started a whole bunch of posts on the 8th (as an exercise–I gave myself half an hour to work on each post, intending to come back and finish them as I was planning to publish), but I didn’t schedule any of them. Pretty weird.
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Hi there,
Apparently, we’ve had this issue come up before. Do you normally preview your drafts before publishing them? Apparently, one user noticed that there was difference when he previewed the post compared to when we didn’t.
Another staff member recommended to follow these steps:
1. Go to Blog Posts and click on Drafts
2. Click the Edit link to open the draft in the editor again
3. Click the Publish button in the editor to publish itLet me know if that works. Thanks!
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Ok, I’ve tried that (but stopped short of publishing as I want to save the post for next week) but it hasn’t changed anything. That’s how I usually edit my drafts anyway. I also previewed it today, which I hadn’t done before, but that also hasn’t changed anything. I’ve seen the past posts on the forum about this issue–it seems like it comes up every so often–but I haven’t seen one that comes up with a working solution.
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Okay, I would manually schedule your posts and in the mean time I will look further into this issue internally to see if there was ever a solution.
I’ll keep you updated. Thanks!
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Hey there,
I checked and saw that we created a fix for the issue back in the beginning of September of last year. However, the fix was made after your drafted posts. So, I take it you shouldn’t have an issue with current posts, but you’re seeing issues with dates before the fix.
Let me know if you have had an issue with draft dates after September 2015 (when the fix was implemented).
Also, did you save the draft before previewing it? I see that made a difference for some.
Thanks!
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By the way, I reopened the issue for our developers to take a look at. I’ll keep you updated!
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Oh that’s great! It’s going to be a little while before I get to any posts that I started after September but I’ll remember to look out for this issue when I do & get back to you either way.
Not sure whether I saved the draft before or after previewing but I’ll pay attention next time.
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