Enable Publicize for old posts

Hey guys,

sure I can share my modification. Go to wp-content/plugins/jetpack/modules/publicize/ui.php.

Comment out:

$all_done = get_post_meta( $post->ID, $this->publicize->POST_DONE . 'all', true ) || ( $this->in_jetpack && 'publish' == $post->post_status );

and place the following line below it:

$all_done = false;

Now comment out:

$service_id_done = (array) get_post_meta( $post->ID, $this->publicize->POST_SERVICE_DONE, true );

And insert the following line below it:

$service_id_done = false;

This will disable the checks whether a post has already been published.
The publicize checkboxes in already existing articles will become clickable again. However, to publicize already published posts, you’ll need to change the status of your article to “Draft”, save it (better reload the page) and then you’ll be able to publicize the article. You can rinse and repeat as much as you like.

This is a dirty solution though. It takes quite a while to publicize older articles this way, so this is only helpful if you publish each article to a bunch of social networks. Otherwise you might be faster posting each article manually to the social networking website of your choice. Also, be aware that your changes to ui.php will be overwritten with the next jetpack update, so if you want to keep this functionality, you’d have to incorporate the changes with functions.php of your (child) theme.

You’re welcome 🙂

Hi jlaks,

thanks for the heads up. Jeremy already commented on this issue in another thread months ago. This is no feature that needs to be added since Jetpack is already fully capable of publishing posts to social networking sites.

All they need to do is to remove the two simple checks. The fact that they implemented them in the first place is a clear sign that they don’t want Jetpack to behave in a different way, so why would they remove them? Plenty of people have complained about this over the last months and nobody cared to remove those checks.

So I wouldn’t hold my horses for that in the future, let alone expect a more varied implementation that gives the user more control over publishing old posts, or even mass publishing.

Hey shippy,

so you’re able to click the checkboxes and re-publish the article, but no posts are being generated on your social networking sites? I experienced this problem a few times with the vanilla version of Jetpack, so you should try it more than once (in case you haven’t) just in case the problem is on Jetpack’s end. In any case, you should reload/re-open the page after setting it to draft and saving it. So it should be loaded as a draft, then the rest should work as expected.

If this doesn’t work then I’m at a loss. Could be that you have made some modifications or other may be other plugins interfere. You’re using the most recent version of Jetpack, don’t you?

Sorry that it didn’t work. There are probably a few more variables that need to be force fed some values. Unfortunately, I can’t do anything about that.