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LiveDose · 04-26-2007, 06:51 PM

Is there a simple way or plugin that will allow you to add posts to a wordpress blog and date them in the past. To make it look like it has been online longer than today...

DTK · 04-26-2007, 06:54 PM

pretty easy if you think about it...it's a database driven system ;)

Jace · 04-26-2007, 06:54 PM

just use the TIMESTAMP checkbox in the posting admin, you can set the date and time to whatever you want

mattz · 04-26-2007, 06:59 PM

yeah it's simple, just use the timestamp, its to the right in the write a post section, just change the date to whenever you want it

fris · 04-26-2007, 07:22 PM

thats some serious business

CaptainHowdy · 04-26-2007, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Fris

thats some serious business

I'll second that...

Jace as usual on top of the blog

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Basic_man · 04-26-2007, 07:44 PM

Can you use this timestamp to make the blog post for you on later date?

Jace · 04-26-2007, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Basic_man

Can you use this timestamp to make the blog post for you on later date?

yup, if you predate it, the post won't show up until that date and time

Aussie Rebel · 04-26-2007, 07:51 PM

You can use http://www.qumana.com/ and its free

nikooo · 04-26-2007, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Jace

yup, if you predate it, the post won't show up until that date and time

interesting..............

Tempest · 04-26-2007, 08:02 PM

I'd like to know if there's a way to do this from an offsite program.. Been trying to get it to work but have failed..

Also, unless wordpress has changed things, the pinging happens when you post them, not when they actually "show up".. In other words, if you add 30 predated entries, all the pings will happen as you add them and not over the next 30 days (assuming they're 1 per day). There are supposed to be some plugins to "fix" this, but I haven't looked into it.

crockett · 04-26-2007, 08:07 PM

Yea I use the time date deal a lot... Makes scheduling blog posts very easy.

Jace · 04-26-2007, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Tempest

I'd like to know if there's a way to do this from an offsite program.. Been trying to get it to work but have failed..

Also, unless wordpress has changed things, the pinging happens when you post them, not when they actually "show up".. In other words, if you add 30 predated entries, all the pings will happen as you add them and not over the next 30 days (assuming they're 1 per day). There are supposed to be some plugins to "fix" this, but I haven't looked into it.

it used to be that way a long while ago, but i believe they fixed that bug around WP 2.0 if I am not mistaken

BUT, rsstoblog will do what you are talking about...you can load it up with all your posts and tell it to post once a day and cycle through all the posts you enter into it, and it will post out to however many blogs you want and email you when your posts are all used up

uno · 04-26-2007, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Tempest

I'd like to know if there's a way to do this from an offsite program.. Been trying to get it to work but have failed..

Also, unless wordpress has changed things, the pinging happens when you post them, not when they actually "show up".. In other words, if you add 30 predated entries, all the pings will happen as you add them and not over the next 30 days (assuming they're 1 per day). There are supposed to be some plugins to "fix" this, but I haven't looked into it.

Cron Future Pings, but I'm not sure if its updated and tosses errors now and then.

crockett · 04-26-2007, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Jace

it used to be that way a long while ago, but i believe they fixed that bug around WP 2.0 if I am not mistaken

BUT, rsstoblog will do what you are talking about...you can load it up with all your posts and tell it to post once a day and cycle through all the posts you enter into it, and it will post out to however many blogs you want and email you when your posts are all used up

Will rsstoblog post into the correct categories? Lets say if you have a few categories on a blog can you set it to post to the correct category?

Tempest · 04-26-2007, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Jace

BUT, rsstoblog will do what you are talking about...you can load it up with all your posts and tell it to post once a day and cycle through all the posts you enter into it, and it will post out to however many blogs you want and email you when your posts are all used up

Does it need access to the WP db in order to do that? I'm trying to have a central db of my blog shit and have it post to the external blogs which includes some free hosted ones. Been trying to use metaWeblog commands etc. but it's not working.. Can't set the date and can't set the file name (post slug).

Jace · 04-26-2007, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by crockett

Will rsstoblog post into the correct categories? Lets say if you have a few categories on a blog can you set it to post to the correct category?

yes, it recognizes your categories and you can post to each category on it's own

Jace · 04-26-2007, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Tempest

Does it need access to the WP db in order to do that? I'm trying to have a central db of my blog shit and have it post to the external blogs which includes some free hosted ones. Been trying to use metaWeblog commands etc. but it's not working.. Can't set the date and can't set the file name (post slug).

rsstoblog does not access any database to post

edit: rsstoblog stores the posts in it's own database though, but doesn't not need your wordpress database to post

cincinati · 04-26-2007, 09:40 PM

use the TIMESTAMP checkbox

edgeprod · 04-26-2007, 09:47 PM

Autoblogger Pro posts out based on the date the of the original feed. So, if you pull a feed that's been going for a year, your WordPress blog will also have posts back-dated for a year. It posts into categories in WordPress, too. Wheeee.

I'd be happy to "populate" your site with older posts, for free.

edgeprod · 04-26-2007, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Tempest

Does it need access to the WP db in order to do that? I'm trying to have a central db of my blog shit and have it post to the external blogs which includes some free hosted ones. Been trying to use metaWeblog commands etc. but it's not working.. Can't set the date and can't set the file name (post slug).

It's not as easy as it looks, at first blush. Your XML-RPC library is likely flawed if you can't set the timestamp. Some XML-RPC libraries will *NOT* support the WordPress (flawed) implementation of dateCreated. It's an array inside of the object, and MUST be passed correctly to WordPress, or it will (silently) post TODAY'S date, not the date you choose.

We had to custom-write an XML-RPC implementation for Autoblogger Pro because of this. It was CRITICAL for us to be able to "back-date" posts to blogs, in order to give the appearance of "history" to a blog you just launched.

DWB · 04-26-2007, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Jace

just use the TIMESTAMP checkbox in the posting admin, you can set the date and time to whatever you want

What he said. Check the box and time belongs to you.

edgeprod · 04-26-2007, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy

What he said. Check the box and time belongs to you.

You'd do that, manually, for hundreds of posts over a large network of blogs?

You're a better man than I, then! I don't have the patience to do much of anything "tedious" without whipping up an automated script to do it for me.

Jace · 04-26-2007, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by edgeprod

You'd do that, manually, for hundreds of posts over a large network of blogs?

You're a better man than I, then! I don't have the patience to do much of anything "tedious" without whipping up an automated script to do it for me.

well, you are going to have to format the text and crop the thumbs anyway if it is original post blog, so pasting it into the post box in wordpress and adjusting the time/date isn't that much more time

LiveDose · 04-26-2007, 10:57 PM

Thanks guys. Easy enough!

edgeprod · 04-27-2007, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Jace

well, you are going to have to format the text and crop the thumbs anyway if it is original post blog, so pasting it into the post box in wordpress and adjusting the time/date isn't that much more time

Hell no. I just "morph" the text for each entry, and have a list of about 20 thumbnails ... so, each blog it "posts" to, it assigns a random date within a range, morphs in a text block using something akin to a thesaurus, and picks a random thumb out of 20 of 'em. Then, it posts out to all of the blogs I want it on.

Doing it manually is for the birds, IMO.

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Tempest Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: May 2004 Location: West Coast, Canada. Posts: 10,217	I'd like to know if there's a way to do this from an offsite program.. Been trying to get it to work but have failed.. Also, unless wordpress has changed things, the pinging happens when you post them, not when they actually "show up".. In other words, if you add 30 predated entries, all the pings will happen as you add them and not over the next 30 days (assuming they're 1 per day). There are supposed to be some plugins to "fix" this, but I haven't looked into it.

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