Posts keep old published date

  • Resolved Steven

    (@shyzer)


    7 years, 7 months ago

    I’ve noticed that despite unchecking the “Preserve Date” option, when my contributors submit a revision of a published post, the old date is kept even after I approve of the new revision. I have to manually edit the time to today’s date.

    I saw another thread from a few months ago with a similar problem, but couldn’t find a solution: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/posts-not-updating-with-new-date/

    This is occurring on my live site and my localhost dev setup.

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  • Plugin Author jamiechong

    (@jamiechong)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    @shyzer

    This is working as intended. Although perhaps the setting and its description are a little misleading.

    Without revisionize, if a user edits a post and updates it, the original publish date is left unchanged.

    So the default revisionize behaviour is the same. Creating a revision produces a new post with the same publish date as its original. When you publish the Revision, the date stays the same.

    *However – there are cases where users want to use the schedule functionality to publish their revision in the future. To do this, they must edit the post date to the future. When the date comes to pass, WP publishes the revision on top of the original post. If the setting your refer to is checked, then we keep the original date, otherwise we fallback to the date of the Revision/copy which is the present date.

    So in short, this checkbox/setting is really only for the case of scheduled revisions and not for normal manual revisions. You or your contributors will have to manually change the date when you publish.

    Thread Starter Steven

    (@shyzer)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    Ahhh, that makes more sense then. Thanks for the clarification.

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