Title: Update Posts Date
Author: edckwt
Published: <strong>March 6, 2024</strong>
Last modified: May 12, 2024

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# Update Posts Date

 By [edckwt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/edckwt/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/update-posts-date.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/update-posts-date/#description)
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 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/update-posts-date/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/update-posts-date/#developers)

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## Description

** WARNING: DON’T USE THIS PLUGIN IF YOUR PERMALINKS INCLUDE DATES **

Why would you want to do this? Here are a few reasons:

 1. New visitors to your site haven’t seen your old content. This will help them discover
    it.
 2. Old content won’t show up in date-based searches on search engines, but resetting
    the date can make them look fresh again.
 3. People like to share and link to new content and they determine that by looking
    at the publication date.

## Installation

 1. Upload Update Posts Date to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Adjust the options as needed to suit your republishing schedule

## FAQ

### Are posts duplicated?

No. The date on posts is updated to the current date making a post appear new. URLs
don’t change and comments continue to display with the post.

### Doesn’t changing the timestamp affect permalinks that include dates?

Yes permalinks with dates would be affected. This plugin shouldn’t be used if your
permalinks include dates since those dates will change when a post is republished.

### Why do post slugs change upon republishing?

This plugin doesn’t alter post slugs. It changes the post date and, depending on
the settings, changes the post’s status. If you have other plugins that take actions
when a post’s date or status change, you may see some unexpected results. There 
isn’t much I can do about the behavior of other plugins.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Update Posts Date” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ edckwt ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/edckwt/)

[Translate “Update Posts Date” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/update-posts-date)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/update-posts-date/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/update-posts-date/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/update-posts-date/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/update-posts-date/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1

Update funcions

#### 1.0

Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **2 years ago**
 *  Active installations **40+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.5.8**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/update-posts-date/)
 * Tags
 * [old post](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/old-post/)[old posts](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/old-posts/)
   [republish](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/republish/)[republishing](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/republishing/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/update-posts-date/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ edckwt ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/edckwt/)

## Support

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