re-posting something that has aready been posted

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  peterbowes · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 12:13 am

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  Say I have about 300 posts over a period of one year and I want to re-post one of them as current and have it up on top of the site one more time – I’ve tried to amend (reschedule) the dates on one post to today’s date and time but have had no result – nothing has happened although when I go into edit for that post it still shows the rescheduled time – which was an hour ago today now – any suggestions?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 2:02 am

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  Never reschedule or change the dates on an existing post, especially an older one since it changes the URL of that post meaning that all the links to that post in the search engines and such will then return a 404 not found error and that is a bad thing.

  There are two ways to do this. One is to go back to that post and set it as a “sticky” post which will put it at the top of your main posts page. You can leave it there for a while and then “unstick” it and it won’t mess up the search engines.

  Another option is to “reblog” that older post which will bring attention back to that post and then people can click on the link are read the older post. Sadly at the moment the “reblog” feature has gone walkabout while staff make some improvements to it and no one knows when it will be back.

  You can manually reblog it though by taking the first paragraph or two and putting them into a post as a blockquote with an introduction above it and a link to the older post below it.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 2:10 am

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  You do risk having smartasses like me going “ooooh, look who’s reblogging HIMSELF” if you do that, though.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 2:12 am

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  Uh oh! Forget I said anything about reblogging.

  :-)

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  peterbowes · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 2:38 am

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  thanks tsb – what is a reblog? – a link to an older post in a current post ?

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 3:12 am

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  It’s a functionality borrowed from Tumblr; it makes a post which links to and quotes a previous post: read down in this post to see the details http://en.support.wordpress.com/likes/

  and I compared Reblogging on WP and Tumblr here http://raincoastermedia.com/2010/09/11/reblog-issue-on-wordpress-com/

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 9:28 pm

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  @peterbowes
  Also note that the last I heard the ability to reblog is currently being worked on and Staff suggest using Press This while they work on it. from > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/reblogging-editing-and-adding-content-to-post?replies=4#post-704026