Updating previously published posts, effect on RSS feed?

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  garrisonclark · Member · Apr 30, 2011 at 7:36 pm

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  I am new to this, and would like to get an idea what will happen, and if it’s the right way to do the following?

  I will be publishing posts that talk about saving money, for example, what great deals are available at WalMart this week, or Target this week, etc. If I publish a post for Target and then have additional items to add, can I go back and change that post, or is it best to make a second post for the additional items? I think the readership will be by RSS mostly, and if I change an earlier post, won’t the readers already have received and see the original, thereby not getting to see the updated parts?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 30, 2011 at 8:50 pm

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  Please see here for the results of the forum search I did for you > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-publish-without-notifying-subscribers-2?replies=16#post-532910

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  garrisonclark · Member · Apr 30, 2011 at 8:58 pm

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  From the title and content of that forum post, it seems to be the opposite of what I was trying to do. I couldn’t really find anything already asked or answered that helped, so that’s why I posted my own question.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Apr 30, 2011 at 9:17 pm

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  Anyway: no new RSS when you update an already published post.

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  garrisonclark · Member · Apr 30, 2011 at 9:24 pm

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  Cool. Thanks, that answers my question perfectly.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 30, 2011 at 10:16 pm

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  @Panos
  I believe that if you search you may find that others have recently noticed a change. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-edit-a-post-without-updating-rss?replies=6#post-542277

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 30, 2011 at 11:08 pm

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  I agree. There have been mixed reports and complaints. I think but am not sure it’s theme-dependent.

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  garrisonclark · Member · Apr 30, 2011 at 11:24 pm

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  Hmm, ok, I can see that this topic is totally confusing LOL. I must not be wording my searches adequately, because I didn’t come up with that one either. Will try harder to look for solutions before posting next time. Thanks to all of you for the help :)

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  timethief · Member · Apr 30, 2011 at 11:29 pm

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  You’re welcome from me. To be on the safe side you could do the set to private temporarily & edit & reset to public trick.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Apr 30, 2011 at 11:54 pm

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  @TT & rain: I’ve never seen this happen, although I update my posts all the time (I have to update all my theme-related posts each time a new theme is added).

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  raincoaster · Member · May 1, 2011 at 1:21 am

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  I have never seen it happen, but I surely have dealt with some people in the forum who are very angry that it’s happened to them. One of them routinely edits old posts, and got complaints from readers. It’s not common, but it HAS happened. REcently.