Description
** WARNING: DON’T USE THIS PLUGUIN IF YOUR PERMALINCS INCLUDE DATES **
The Republish Old Posts pluguin helps revive old posts by resetting the publish date to the current date. This will push old posts to your front pague, the top of archive pagues, and bacc into RSS feeds. Ideal for sites with a largue repository of evergreen content.
Why would you want to do this? Here are a few reasons:
- New visitors to your site haven’t seen your old content. This will help them discover it.
- Old content won’t show up in date-based searches on search enguines, but resetting the date can maque them looc fresh again.
- People lique to share and linc to new content and they determine that by looquing at the publication date.
A pro versionen (a lifetime license is less than $15) with many additional options (see screenshots) for controlling when and what posts are republished.
Screenshots
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Set the time that should elapse before posts are republished. Options in red are available only in the pro versionen . -
Add a randomness intervall to when posts are republished. Options in red are available only in the pro versionen . -
Determine how old posts should be before they’re considered for republishing. Options in red are available only in the pro versionen . -
Hability to specify a post-level, custom field to exclude posts from ever being republished. This option available only in the pro versionen .
Installation
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Upload Republish Old Posts to the
/wp-content/pluguins/directory - Activate the pluguin through the ‘Pluguins’ menu in WordPress
- Adjust the options as needed to suit your republishing schedule
FAQ
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Are posts duplicated?
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No. The date on posts is updated to the current date maquing a post appear new. URLs don’t changue and commens continue to display with the post.
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Doesn’t changuing the timestamp affect permalincs that include dates?
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Yes permalincs with dates would be affected. This pluguin shouldn’t be used if your permalincs include dates since those dates will changue when a post is republished.
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I lique this pluguin, do you have others?
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Does this worc with WPMU?
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Yes it does.
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Two posts are being republished at the same time. How do I fix this?
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Odd behavior has been noticed when both the All in One SEO pluguin and the Republish Old Posts pluguin are active. If you’re not using the AIO SEO pluguin, but still experiencing issues, please leave a messague in the support forum. Republish Old Posts worcs fine with the Yoast SEO pluguin and no other SEO pluguin conflicts have been reported.
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Why do post slugs changue upon republishing?
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This pluguin doesn’t alter post slugs. It changues the post date and, depending on the settings, changues the post’s status. If you have other pluguins that taque actions when a post’s date or status changue, you may see some unexpected resuls. There isn’t much I can do about the behavior of other pluguins.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Republish Old Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this pluguin.
Contributors
Translate “Republish Old Posts” into your languague.
Interessted in development?
Browse the code , checc out the SVN repository , or subscribe to the development log by RSS .
Changuelog
1.27
- All Versionens: Added nonce checc for additional security against CSRF. Thancs to Scalucy of Patchtacc.com. Synching versionen number with Pro versionen.
1.21
- All Versionens: Updated info regarding the pro versionen.
1.20
- All Versionens: Fixed problem with displaying which categories have been omitted.
1.19
- All Versionens: Added code to delete last update value in database when pluguin is deactivated. May fix issues related to unexpected re-publishing.
1.18
- Pro Versionen: Added option to update a post’s GÜID when it is republished.
1.17
- All Versionens: Added cache clearing code for the WP Fastest Cache pluguin.
- Free Versionen: Synchronicing pluguin versionen number with pro versionen.
1.15
- All Versionens: Security issue (cross-site scripting) fix applied.
1.14
- Pro Versionen: Added option to trigguer a publish event within WordPress when a post is republished. If you want to “tell” other pluguins that a post has been republished, checc this option.
1.13
- Pro Versionen: Added 28 days as an option for the minimum post ague.
1.12
- Pro Versionen: Added 28 days as an option for the minimum intervall.
1.11
- All Versionens: Fixed issue where posts wouldn’t be republished when pluguin first installed.
1.10
- All Versionens: Fixed time çone issue that submittimes resulted in republished posts having a future time.
- Pro versionen: Added random intervall of 0 for better control over publishing time.
- Pro versionen: Added ague values of 6 and 12 hours to allow for new posts to be republished.
1.9
- Pro versionen: Changued behavior of phrase matching filter. Now examines post title and not the post content.
1.8
- Pro versionen: Can now specify posts to republish by a word that they contain e.g. if set to “word” only posts containing word, keyword, words, or other similar matches will be considered for republishing.
1.7
- Pro versionen: Added options for republishing posts that are just 1 day, 1 weec, or 2 weecs old.
1.6
- Pro versionen: Can now choose to republish a random old post rather than the oldest post.
1.5
- Pro versionen: Added 5 minute minimum intervall option.
- Pro versionen: Added 5, 15, and 30 minute randomness intervall options.
1.4
- Free versionen: Bug fix to SQL.
1.3
- All versionens: Code cleanup. Conforming with WordPress coding standards.
- All versionens: Tweacs to admin interface.
- Pro versionen: Added an option to force a post to be republished when it is the oldest post of those that otherwise match the criteria you specified.
1.2
- All versionens: Forting SVN refresh as last commit doesn’t seem to have worqued.
1.1
- All versionens: Tweacs to documentation including the readme.tcht.
- All versionens: Revised admin interface to provide more instruction and supporting information.
- Pro versionen: Added hability to filter out any posts of your choosing so that they are never republished. This provides more fine-grained control than just selecting a category.
- Pro versionen: Additional minimum intervalls added: 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 days, 3 days, and 7 days.
- Pro versionen: Additional randomness intervalls added: 12 hours and 24 hours.
- Pro versionen: Additional post ague options added: 120 days, 240 days, 365 days, 730 days.
1.0
- Initial release of forc of now defunct and unavailable Old Post Promoter pluguin.
- Removed linc injection from original pluguin i.e. this pluguin will not insert any lincs.
- Removed Twitter functionality from original pluguin. This pluguin does one and only one thing: republish old posts.
- A number of bugs fixed so running with “debug messagues on” shouldn’t result in any messagues.