Need help, date is still showing up

Hey there,

After a brief glance I can’t immediately figure out what’s going on. To clarify, you’ve got my plugin settings page set to 365 days?

Your theme is based on the Twenty Eleven theme, which means it should work (or at least remove everything but the words “posted on” which is a problem we can address once we get the root issues resolved)

The stylesheet itself is not loading. That makes me think that it is related to a caching or SEO plugin. Are you running any sort of caching plugin on the site?

As a start, try disabling other plugins one at a time and see if it changes anything. This is best done in a developer environment, not on the live site. But if you are careful, and ok with some short-term wonkiness, it should be fine on the live site.

I’m 90% sure this is a plugin incompatibility. We’ll track it down, and I can get you fixed up.

Hi!
Yes, I have it set for 365 days. I just tried deactivating several plugins but nothing is happening, and I am not sure about that caching thing.

:/

Can you give me a list of all plugins you are currently running?

Akismet
Any Mobile Theme Switcher
BackupBuddy
Broken Link Checker
Category Recent Posts Widget
Chartbeat
Collapsing Categories
Content Manager Light
Disqus Comment System
Fancier Author Box
Faster Image Insert
Google Analytics
Google Author
Imsanity
Meta
Polldaddy Polls and ratings
Shareaholic
Simple pull quote
subheading
titan creator
wordpress help
wordpress SEO
Wp Cone by WP academy
wp google maps
WP User Avatar
ZooEffect

I am poking around, installing as many of those as I can find in my dev environment, and nothing has hit yet. I can’t find the following plugins:

Google Author (I found and installed “Google Author Link” but I don’t know if it’s the same one that you have installed)
Meta
titan creator
wordpress help
wp cone

Have you tried deactivating all of those plugins to see if it works?

I’d love to get to the bottom of this, but without admin access to the back end of your site, I am not sure what else I can do.

The way my plugin works is by evaluating the date of the post (which is determined within what is called the WordPress “Loop”) and if the difference between today and the date is greater than the number you set in the settings, it places a link to an additional CSS stylesheet in the code on the page, which hides the date.

In looking at your site, that link/stylesheet is not being placed into older posts.

If I were you, I’d begin by changing the days to 3, or 4, or 20 (try several) in the settings of my plugin, to see if it works.

If that doesn’t work, it means that something within your WordPress installation—and I still suspect a plugin, though it might be the theme itself—is either (a) changing the date being output from within the Loop, or (b) changing today’s date being reported to the server.

If you are willing to grant access to your site to a stranger, I’m willing to hop in the back end and see if I can track down the culprit. Don’t post the username and password here, but feel free to email me credentials, and I’ll have a look.

In the meantime, I am releasing a patch (based on an inefficiency I found thanks to combing through the plugin for your sake!) that has an outside chance of working for you, so later today once you see version 2.1 of my plugin, you can try that.

I do hope we can get this resolved!

So I deactivated all of the plugin except the WP Old Post Date Remover of course and I changed the days to ‘5’ and it still does not work. Also I found out we are running cache.

OK, it’s likely cache related. What system/service are you using to cache?

I’ve gotten my plugin to work alongside the W3 Total Cache plugin, so it’s possible with some caching setups, though I’ve only tested it on W3 total Cache.

Vontaub,

Now that we’ve traced the problem to the caching setup you guys are running, I’m going to mark this issue as resolved. If you’d like help getting the plugin to work in tandem with the caching, let me know, and I would be happy to poke around and see what we can do.

Thanks for your patience with me while I tracked down the problem. Let me know if you’d like to try and get the caching system tweaked to make my plugin work!

Ben