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1. Bullgrit
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   Posted 3 years ago #

   I would like to repost an old post without changing its original date and placement. I'd like to do this on the weekends -- a sort of a "Best of" or rerun of good posts. I'd like to keep the old comments with the reposted post, and allow new comments to go right in with the old. (I hope I'm explaining this well enough.)

   Is there some way of doing this? Has anyone else already thought of this and figured out a way of doing it?

   Right now, I've tried it one time, but I've used a very ham-fisted method -- I just posted a short introduction with a link in the new post taking the reader to the old post. It doesn't look good -- as I'd like the repost to appear in full on the front page, rather than force the reader to click again to read the post.

   I'd appreciate any help or advice on this.

   Thanks,
   Bullgrit
   http://www.totalbullgrit.com

2. laferney
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm looking for a way to do the same thing. In my case, I have a gardening blog, and one of the recurring things is a post called "The Garden in January (Feb, Mar, ...) Which has information about what you should be planting, weather, etc for that month. Obviously there's a lot of overlap from year to year. Instead of pushing out a new post with lots of duplicate material every year I would like to be able to edit (hopefully improve) the old one, move it to the front, and push it out again via the feed.

   I can think of several other kinds of bloggers who could use this - sports playoffs, spring break posts, election coverages, astrologers, on and on. If I were a programmer I would make a plugin for this, and probably call it refeed or something like that.

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