Re-posting and keeping old URL

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  intelligentnest · Member · Sep 12, 2013 at 5:36 pm

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  I want to update my top post and repost as a new post with a new date stamp on the URL. I want the old URL to work still because it is linked on various sites on the internet (I’d hate for someone to get a error message when trying to access it though a link), but want to merge the posts with the new date stamp so that there is a not a double post on my site (making things confusing). Can this be done?

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  rachelmcr · Member · Sep 13, 2013 at 2:23 pm

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  Hi there,

  Since you want both links to work (with the new date stamp and the old one), you’ll have to have two separate posts. There isn’t a way to automatically redirect a single URL to a different one, so both links will only work if there’s a post published at each URL.

  However, if you just want the post to be stuck to the top of your list of posts, you could make it a sticky post. That would keep it at the top of the list without having to change the date stamp and URL.

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  intelligentnest · Member · Sep 13, 2013 at 7:14 pm

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  Thank you for your response. I have another question…. why is it that whenever I provide a link to another one of my post’s on a new post, I get an email from WordPress asking me to moderate a comment… with verbatim what I already wrote in my own post, but the title of the comment is the title of the post that I added a link to. I never know what to do with these “comments”. If I delete them, does that interfere with the link that I left?? Thanks

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  eurello · Staff · Sep 15, 2013 at 4:58 pm

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  Hi there – I think you’re referring to pingbacks:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/pingbacks/

  If those self-pings annoy you, you can turn them off:

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