When I publish a draft the posting date is not updated

  • When I used to finally publish a draft, the date posted would be the current date. Suddenly this is not being updated. Now the date I first started the draft is used. This is very annoying and I can’t find a way to set it for current time and date. The best work-around I have found is to manually set the scheduling date and time before hitting publish.

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  • You can change the date in the settings just above the publish/update button. You’ll see an edit link next to the date.

    Thread Starter Hermana Linda

    (@hermana-linda)

    Thank you for your response. ?? I do know how to change the publish date. My question was why it was publishing the wrong date and how to avoid it. I did get my answer to the latter, but was unable to edit my question.

    It seems that once I use Quick Edit on a draft, it changes the publish date from “Immediately” to the date and time of the draft. Very odd. I consider that a glitch. But anyway, I’ll just refrain from using Quick Edit in the future.

    I have the same issue – where if you quick edit a post that’s in Draft status a date will be appended to it, and it is not possible to revert back to “Publish immediately” in full edit mode.

    I believe this to be a bug.

    This is happening to me too. Is it possibly due to a plugin?

    Any response on this?

    How would you completely get rid of the post date from appearing all together?

    You can hide the post date easily on the front end in your theme, however, your content will still publish on the date the draft was created, hence the issue discussed in this thread. So, all your content would still be posted chronologically with or without displaying the date. Probably not the ideal situation.

    This seems to be a pretty widespread problem. I’ve found bug tickets that go back 6 years ago with similar issues reported. Pretty frustrating that WordPress has not paid attention to this issue.

    So, all your content would still be posted chronologically with or without displaying the date.

    If you don’t want posts listed chronologically, use a custom query to change the post order.

    I DO want posts listed chronologically. The problem is, I have 20-30 writers and 5 editors to proof their content. Not everything gets published live the same day the draft is created. So, for example, if a writer posts a “pending review” article on May 1st, the editor may finally get around to editing the content by may 10th. The editor hits “publish” and the post goes live, but with a date of May 1st. Therefore, what should be a new post published on May 10th ends up being a old post from May 1st and buried in all the other content that was posted between the 1st and 10th, often not even seen on the home page or category page.

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