Support for bumping selected posts

A feature I would like to see is to allow a WordPress editor to “bump” a post including having it appear in the site’s RSS Webfeed as a new post and without needing to have it be “sticky”.

A common example would be an old post relevant to a current situation or has had a lot of revision and updating take place. Here, it would be desireable to give it the “new post” treatment including having it appear as a new entry in the site’s RSS feed without copying the older post or meddling with the published date which may either cause broken links through your site or affect how Google & co “see” your site.

Here, this would be about preserving internal and external links to the post but effectively bringing it “up front” as a new article. But as you add new content to your blog, you may want to allow the article you had bumped to recede from the front page.

It may be worth adding a “major change” or “ordered-date” field to the database specifically to allow ab older article to be bumped, a feature that is similar to what happens with forum software where a forum admin may simply want to “bump” a particular thread for more exposure.

With regards,

Simon Mackay