Wrong post shows in Reader
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I republished an older post from two years ago. It shows on my blog as published but people when I checked in Reader people see another post which I did NOT republish while the one I DID publish is not visible on Reader. I’ve put the post back to Drafts and published it again and the same thing happened. Any idea how I fix this and why this is happening? Thanks
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Thank you for your reply! The post I republished was this one:
I republished it by updating the publishing date on it.
The post that shows in the Reader instead is Blogger Recognition Award:
https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/47794549/posts/1487828000These are some of the things I tried: putting Return from the Stars back to draft, changing the date on it, putting it back to its original date and republishing it again. But each time it was the Blogger Recognition Award which showed up on Reader as freshly republished. My e-mail subscribers did get a copy of Return from the Stars via e-mail and I could see it on my blog. I then set Blogger Recognition Award to private in the hope that it’ll get rid of in the Reader but it’s still there.
After that I gave up and put Return from the Stars back where it originally belonged in my blog, ie. 2015. If it’s any help in finding out what went wrong, I can republish again.
Thank you for your help.
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Thank you @arwen1968 . Can you let me know what specific steps you took when you republished? I’m going to see if I can duplicate this on my end.
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I opened up WP Admin (which I prefer to the new interface). Found the post in All Posts and opened it to edit. In the Publish box on the right I where it says Published on: [date] I clicked on edit and chose a future date & time, clicked OK. The blue Update button changed to Schedule. I clicked Schedule and then waited for the post to be published. Which it did except for going wrong in the Reader. I’ve done this a few times before since last year for Throwback Thursday and this is the first time I noticed it went wrong. I noticed it because some people liked the Blogger Recognition post and I was like – why are they reading that? So I had a look in Reader and then I noticed.
Thank you
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May I please interject here?
Changing the date stamp on any published post means you break the link to the original content and everywhere that link appears online and in search engine results becomes a 404 page not found. That also means that any Google juice to that post that helped your site’s page rank is gone.
That is why we have the reblog feature https://en.support.wordpress.com/reblogs/
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Thank you @timethief. Mine is a very small blog so I don’t think I rank much with Google or have got any links pointing back to the post, to be honest. These were posts I published when I first started blogging and at that time the blog wasn’t even on wp.com, it was self-hosted and I didn’t have any followers. Also I usually set the date back to the original after a day or two when people had a chance to read it because I just like to keep the posts in their original order so wouldn’t that fix any broken links? There were a couple of posts that I ended up rewriting completely and I left those with the new date.
When I first thought of republishing some of the oldest posts, I did look on the support forum and changing the date was what people seemed to recommend. I looked up the reblogs that you kindly gave the link to but it looks more like it’s for me to reblog somebody else’s posts rather than my own?
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@timethief is correct; also, changing the date is not meant to republish posts in the reader or anyone’s feeds. I’ll verify this with our reader team to be sure.
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Also @arwen1968 – did you go back and change the date of the post afterward? I noticed it still has 2015 in its URL.
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@supernovia – Thank you for your reply.
What is changing the date for then? It does seem to republish the post in the Reader, or at least it did before. It even sends it out to the e-mail subscribers.
And yes I did change the date back afterwards, since it seemed to make a mess, I thought it was better the way it used to be.
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What is changing the date for then?
Not for that ;) — reblog or copy post is your better bet.
I know friends who have (for example) used WordPress to make a digital record of their journals, along with the original entry dates. Or let’s say you wanted to write about your day, but midnight already passed. Or you’ve imported posts from some other platform but the dates didn’t come through properly. There are a number of uses.
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When you say copy the post, do you mean copy the text and paste it in a completely new post and then delete the old one? I’ll bear that in mind for the future.
Did you manage to find out why the post showed up as a different post in the Reader though? If it didn’t show up it wouldn’t have mattered so much but it’s the fact that it linked to the wrong post that bothers more. Because this could happen to other posts also, I don’t mean republished posts but normal posts scheduled for later, or even just posts that are published straight away!
Thanks @supernovia
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Try this, @arwen1968:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/copy-a-post/They’ll be working on a fix to stop re-dated posts from showing in the reader. I don’t know whether it can pull that post back or not, but it won’t happen going forward.
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OK, I will try the copy post feature next time when I want to republish an old post, thank you for your help @supernovia.
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