Title: editing posts here?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# editing posts here?

 *  [piginzen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piginzen/)
 * (@piginzen)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-here/)
 * why cant i edit my own posts here?

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 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-here/#post-62063)
 * You can edit your posts on this forum(not the titles though) for a limited amount
   of time after you make a post. As for the reason for not being able to edit after
   a longer period, I beleive it is a limitation. It also could be so that there
   is some consistency in what’s written here. If you wish to make a change a new
   post with the updated details would be great, and this might just be better, 
   since people can trace back to the old entry if they need to. Often times, since
   replies are posted to the original post, changing the original post later might
   confuse the few who happen to read that thread later!
 *  Thread Starter [piginzen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piginzen/)
 * (@piginzen)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-here/#post-62763)
 * i contacted Matt, and he never wrote me back
    is there anyone else here who can
   help me… basically… i want to get my URL out of the HTML in this thread so that
   google wont slurp it up… and keep my privacy any help would be greatly appreciated,
   mat
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-here/#post-62764)
 * yeah i have had problems with uris here getting caught by google 🙁
    sometimes
   it comes in very handy but well, it sucks too… matt i believe is outta station.
   just leave him a mail and hope he gets time. he gets lot of mail dude… 🙂 he 
   still has not deleted my posts i told him do :p
 *  [oisin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oisin/)
 * (@oisin)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-here/#post-62766)
 * Another strange problem – if you edit your post, then go back and realise you
   missed something, and try to edit it again, it tells you that this forum has 
   spam protection, and you’re only allowed to post once a minute.
    Since when does
   editing equal posting? And why does this spam message appear when you click on“
   Edit” instead of when you click on “Submit” (ie. you could easily spend the rest
   of the 60 seconds editing your post again, but you have to wait till the 60 seconds
   have passed before you can even _enter_ the editing page)?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-here/#post-62767)
 * Google – email them (follow their Help link) and ask them to remove your url 
   from their search results. They will do this, and it works.
    Not sure about other
   SE’s. Another point is that if you visit anywhere from a ‘secret’ site, the url
   to that site is revealed in the ‘referrer’ string which many tracking scripts
   can reveal. It is very hard to keep a site secret these days. Consider using 
   a ‘robots.txt’ file (again, follow Google’s help link) and a password protection
   using .htaccess. Robots.txt is not obeyed by many other smaller SE’s
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-here/#post-62768)
 * Have I imagined this but isn’t the edit function for your own posts only activated
   if the member has posted his own url?

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-here/#post-62768)
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