predated posts keep reverting back

nobody? ??

it reverted back to todays date again today

i keep setting back to 1/1/13 and later on when I look it’s back on the present day as just published

driving me crazy

it happened again today with my two earliest posts … so weird and annoying

never mind, redoing the blog from scratch … I looked at the php admin table for posts and the posts that kept reverting were in that section MANY MANY times

it all looked wrong to me and the only fix I saw was to start from scratch

still nobody else chiming in on this?

well, I had deleted the ENTIRE site out of my hosting, put it back, set up a new database installed wp and guess what … my first post that I set to 1/1 now today says 2/24

and guess what, that is todays date … WTF

any thoughts on this would be nice

in the mean time, I guess the other solution is not to pre date posts which is not a solution that makes me happy

still nobody else chiming in on this?

As you keep querying this, I suppose you’re genuinely looking for an answer. Yes, still nobody has chimed in.

If you’re looking for urgent support, consider hiring someone at https://jobs.wordpress.net

hiring someone is not the answer, but thanks for chiming in

@mrsray you may want to give this a read.

https://wprealm.com/blog/writing-a-better-support-forum-request/

And (if you haven’t already done so) the forum welcome is good too.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome

Your post is basically summarized as “Something weird is going on but I’m not providing any details such as a link, plugins I’m using, or which theme. OMGWTHBBQ Why isn’t anyone chiming in??”

Okay that’s a slight exaggeration but not by much. ??

If you want help from other volunteers such as yourself you’re going to need to give us some tangible information.

– What’s your self-hosted WordPress URL?

– What steps have you taken to reproduce or eliminate this problem? Have you deactivated all of your plugins and switched to the Twenty Twelve theme?

– Can you reproduce the problem on demand? From above I don’t think you can but asking never hurts.

– Have you spoken with your host? If your database is getting rolled back that would revert anything you’ve done editing wise.

We’d like to assist you (this is a volunteer support forum after all) but if you provided some more useful information that would help us all out.

thank you very much, I am going to give this a read.

https://wprealm.com/blog/writing-a-better-support-forum-request/

and try a few more of your suggestions and get back to you

It was written by a very nice and smart person, the advice there may help you provide some good details. ??

Just an update … did troubleshooting as suggested.

default theme had no issues with no plugins turned on

put my theme on had no issues

then turned on plugins and BAM … same thing.

So I knew it was a plugin

discovered the plugin …

SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2 has an option “Promote old post with no search engine traffic” which for the first time ever I enabled it, cause it sounded like a cool option.

have used this plugin with no problems before without that option turned on.

Well, not cool, it was the culprit, turned it off and all better now.

Thanks very much everybody for all the suggestions!

also resolved