Offset post dates?

  • Ricsca2

    (@ricsca2)


    1 week, 2 days ago

    I’m not entirely clear on how the automatic update works.

    For SEO, I think the update makes sense if it’s updated on today’s date, so when Google visits the site again, it will find the article with the newer date. Is that correct?
    Updating an article created, for example, on 1/1/25 to 3/3/25 makes little sense if Google goes to it today, which is 3/05/26, correct?

    I have more than 5,000 posts, and I don’t want them all to be updated with the same date. What can I do?
    I saw that I can select the minutes and hours, but would it still update them all to the same date, or does it update the date by one week once a week based on the original date?

    I hope I’ve explained myself clearly 😉

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  • Plugin Author Timi Makinde

    (@temak)

    4 days, 20 hours ago

    Hi @ricsca2

    The idea is to always update the content on your site to have the latest info and offer the most help to users. When search engines crawl a post, regardless of the date they do, they look at the dates as a signal of how recently the content went out so a post from last year will most likely show dates from last year even if it was crawled this year. Crawlers have their own logic of how to determine the post date, which is where this plugin comes in handy.

    To your question about the 5000+ posts having different dates. Please take a site backup, update to the latest version, set up the offset you want in the plugin settings and test with a couple of the posts to be sure it works the way you want before updating all posts. Preferrably if you have a staging environment for your site, that would be best to test before doing it on the live site, if not, test a small number of posts first before doing the rest.

    Let me know if that works all fine or you need help with anything else.

    Thank you for checking the plugin out!

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