No. That’s the way to do it: editing the timestamp.
Who the heck can guess what is the title of your future post???
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broomy
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No-one can guess the title, but wouldn’t the search engines know about it on creation date if I had pinging on? I want to hide the post from the search engines until a “published” date.
Hey, as moshu pointed out, the correct way is editing the timestamp.
How do you expect the search engines to “know” about a page, which isn’t published yet ???:D LOL
Editing the timestamp will tell wordpress to publish the post on the day and time which is set up in the timestamp (correct?)!
So don’t worry:)
wp-cron has a “future pings” module: http://www.skippy.net/blog/category/wordpress/plugins/wp-cron/
As I recall, by default WP will do the pings/trackbacks even if a post is future dated. The “future pings” thing will change it so they’re not done until the posted date arrives.
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broomy
(@broomy)
Thanks HandySolo, the “future pings” module looks like just what I need.
Lelion, I wasn’t sure whether providing a future timestamp to a post would still mean that the post is pinged at the time of creation. Although I’m no expert I thought this would mean that the services being pinged would know about the post and may result in the post being indexed in search engines before I wanted it to appear as “published”.
Thanks again.
