Scheduled Posts Change Original Publication Date

  • Resolved brochite

    (@brochite)


    1 year, 10 months ago

    I’ve been using your plugin (free version) for a couple of years and am very happy to have it. One irritation I’ve found, though, is when I schedule an update to happen at a future date. I do this by editing the publication date in the settings box, page tab, on the right side of the editing screen.

    This works fine to schedule the post, but then the original publication date of the page or post also changes to match the date/time I selected. The only way I’ve figured out how to recover the actual date is using the Wayback machine.

    Is there something I’m missing? How can I schedule an update to an already-existing page/post so that it updates at a future date/time, without also overwriting the original publication date?

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  • Plugin Support Riza Maulana Ardiyanto

    (@rizaardiyanto)

    Hi @brochite

    While you choose the future date during scheduling, there should be a button called “Schedule Revisions”. You should click that button so the actual date is not affected

    Thread Starter brochite

    (@brochite)

    Hi @rizaardiyanto

    Thanks for the reply. I think I have figured this out. I am using the free version that doesn’t have this button. I looked at the features of the premium product and noticed the button that you mentioned.

    It’s still a great product – I won’t withdraw or change my 5-star review – but unfortunately, that added functionality isn’t worth $70/year to me.

    Plugin Support Riza Maulana Ardiyanto

    (@rizaardiyanto)

    Schedule revisions is included in free version, it does not require Pro version.

    Thread Starter brochite

    (@brochite)

    Hi @rizaardiyanto

    I appreciate your writing back. Something must have changed with the Settings tab inside the plugin, at least since I started using your plugin 2.5 years ago.

    I have compiled a PDF showing my GUI for scheduling and submitting a revision using the free version of the plugin with a fairly vanilla theme: Twenty Sixteen, published by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.

    In that PDF, I also include the two Settings tabs that solved my issue. I was looking for fairly default behavior, which is not what the default selections were in the tabs. I modified the settings so that the modified date always updates with revisions, but the publish date never does.

    This might be a good thing for your support team to keep top of mind, and might also be helpful in your FAQs and documentation. If that advice already exists, I obviously missed it!

    I’d be glad to send the PDF but can’t do so through the support system here. Thank you again for your support and help of a really fabulous plugin.

    Plugin Support Riza Maulana Ardiyanto

    (@rizaardiyanto)

    Are you talking about this setting: https://i.imgur.com/NjHOevU.png ?

    Thread Starter brochite

    (@brochite)

    That’s one of the tabs. The other one is this one: https://imgur.com/a/KZaOEWL

    These tabs impact the publish date/time and the last revised date/time.

    It might be helpful to create an FAQ about these since I assumed your plugin followed the default WP editing behavior. I can understand how these options are helpful for various circumstances!

    I thank you for the reply and myself for not giving up on your great plugin!

    Plugin Support Riza Maulana Ardiyanto

    (@rizaardiyanto)

    Thanks for letting us know. We will think of improving this to better tackle this kind of confusions issue.

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