WordPress › Support Topic: change the timestamp of a post without it affecting the URL / $10

WordPress › Support Topic: change the timestamp of a post without it affecting the URL / $10 http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: change the timestamp of a post without it affecting the URL / $10 en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:33:14 +0000 cyrillsneer on "change the timestamp of a post without it affecting the URL / $10" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/250708#post-1008944 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:31:41 +0000 cyrillsneer 1008944@http://wordpress.org/support/ <blockquote>Out of curiosity, why not just use the built in ability to keep a post stuck to the front page? Wouldn't that accomplish the same thing? </blockquote> Because we would like the posts to start cycling through the loop from the beginning again. Sushubh on "change the timestamp of a post without it affecting the URL / $10" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/250708#post-1008678 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:36:52 +0000 Sushubh 1008678@http://wordpress.org/support/ this is one of the reasons i stopped using date based values in the URL. post number serves the purpose better. Chris_K on "change the timestamp of a post without it affecting the URL / $10" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/250708#post-1008665 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:12:44 +0000 Chris_K 1008665@http://wordpress.org/support/ Out of curiosity, why not just use the built in ability to keep a post stuck to the front page? Wouldn't that accomplish the same thing? williambarnes on "change the timestamp of a post without it affecting the URL / $10" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/250708#post-1008651 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:37:41 +0000 williambarnes 1008651@http://wordpress.org/support/ I'd really appreciate it if anyone could tell me how to do the following, i've even created a mahalo answers question for $10: <a href="http://www.mahalo.com/answers/wordpress/how-to-change-the-timestamp-of-wordpress-post-without-it-affecting-the-url-of-the-story" rel="nofollow">http://www.mahalo.com/answers/wordpress/how-to-change-the-timestamp-of-wordpress-post-without-it-affecting-the-url-of-the-story</a> ---- we are using 2.7 write and publish a story now, which would create this URL (we already use this permalink structure) domain.com/2009-03-07/story-title and then next Wednesday (say 3.11.09) I would like to change the publishing/timestamp to 3.11.09 so that the story goes back to the top of front page of the blog, and start cycling through the loop again but without it changing the URL of the post. I would like to be able to do this without editing the database, so that writers can do it easily with technical knowledge.