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1. 11Mystics
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm setting up a WP installation for a publication that was previously running on a custom database solution. Their article tables did NOT have a standard data/time stamp for the published data so during import to WP, I had to auto inject the data/time.

   Since I didn't realize this was going to be an issue, I simple injected a date/time stamp based on the "issue month" For example, all articles published in the January 2009 issue of the magazine got a timestamp of:

   2009-01-01 06:00:00

   Generally speaking there are 35 articles for each month/year combo going back to 1996.

   The problem with this is that the "next_post_link" and "previous_post_link" do not work now. Instead of going one article by the next, it's going an entire month by month, displaying the first article it finds with a new date.

   Is there a way to fix this without having to go back and fix the dates in the database? I really do not wanna do that ;-)

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hoping that using Template_Tags/previous_posts_link and Template_Tags/next_posts_link resolves the issue for you...

3. 11Mystics
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks for the response.

   The problem I'm having is with next_post_link, not next_posts_link. I'm on a single page, scrolling from one post to the next, not a block of posts like on the index page.

   I don't believe there's a way around this in WP and I think it's one of those, "not really a bug" things, but one of those weird anomalies that crops up when users starting using the system. Who would have ever thought a post would have an identical date/timestamp to 30 other posts? Note to self.

   I wrote a program to generate the SQL to update the records since it's probably better to have the data sanitized than not. Now everything is working as it should.

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