Published Post Back-Dating Itself

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  ahealthierhappy · Member · Oct 2, 2016 at 4:44 pm

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  Hi all, here is what happened – wondering if anyone else has experienced this, because my mind is boggled!

  I manually published a post yesterday (Oct. 1st). Minutes later, I looked at my posts on my Dashboard, and was shocked to see that it said “4d ago” for my just-published post!

  I have no idea why it did this! I never have used the Schedule feature, so it’s not like it was a mix-up there. I’d been working on this post for a while, and it had been hanging out in my drafts all along until yesterday.

  Two problems with this: 1) Because WordPress thinks my post was published 4 days ago, it put it into the Reader wayyyyy back buried 4 days ago, so my post never got the chance to be top of pile. Editing the date of my post in my Dashboard does not change this. It stays where WP originally inserts it.
  2) Editing the date of my post from Sept 27 to Oct 1 seemed okay so that I could at least see it on my blog site with the right date, but then a huge issue came to light. The date of your post affects your URL. So, my email subscribers all got emails linking them to the post, and that link had 2016/9/27 as part of the URL. Therefore, when I manually corrected my post’s date to Oct 1st, guess what, that changed the post’s URL to be 2016/10/1 instead, rendering the emailed link broken. UGH! So when I saw that, I weighed my options and decided to just live with the date looking wrong on my site, so I put it back to 9/27 begrudgingly. At least then, my email subscribers would have a working link.

  But this whole thing has me really worried that this is going to keep happening, because it happened once before (about 4 posts ago). Though in that case, it only back-dated it by 1 day. For that instance, I actually corrected it by deleting the post and re-posting, so that it would show up as posted as the right day. (Which made me feel bad bc then my readers got a duplicate new post email that makes me look like I was trying to spam them!) I really do not want to have to do that again, which is why I didn’t do it this time.

  Has this happened to anyone? If so, do you know what causes it?

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