Hey Folks!
I think I asked this question months ago but never got down to an answer. Maybe we can figure it out now!
I want to be able to set a cron job up to re-post the same article over and over again for as long as I want. (yes, I am a bit nutty) I have tried this several ways but haven't discovered how to yet. Does anyone have any ideas or thoughts?
Well if you don't find an automatic method, you could save the post over and over with a different timestamp for each.
But, instead of that, why not just use the static front page ability?
MichaelH,
Thank you for your reply. However, I am not interested in a static front page. I have a static front page already. I truely just want to "re-post the same article over and over again".
Setting a time stamp is not sufficient because after a post has been posted it wont repost. I need something that will repost indefinitely.
I meant, just publish the same content, over and over and over and over and over, but use a different timestamp on each post.
That's what would be called a 'brute force solution' ;)
Yes, MichaelH, I understood what you meant. However, thats not going to work, I am talking about reposting the same post several hundred or thousand times. Not just 20 or even 50. This is why I need an automated system.
I wonder if this plugin would help? http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/scheduled-post-shift-plugin-for-wordpress/
Hmmm....it seems as if that plugin just recyles old posts. I am looking for something that could create a new post.
Heres a theory that I haven't had a chance to try out yet:
What ya think? Will that work?
Posted 5 years ago #
I have exactly the same need. We have a group blog and put up an open thread every night at 6:00 pm. It's a major hassle to cut, paste, edit timestamp, save for more than a week in advance.
Any suggestions other than the cron job/email one?
clnewbill,
I haven't found anything for this yet, but at the same time I quit looking about 8 months ago! Eventually what I did was ask myself why I wanted to do this and then I came up with a better alternative. One reason that I would advise you to do the same, is because the there are a few issues involving duplicate postings that may interfere with your rankings in Google or other search engines. I am not sure if this matters to you, but it did to me, therefore I thought of something different.
Posted 5 years ago #
Thanks - there's got to be a way to automate this. I'll figure out something.
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