Problem since upgrading to WordPress 4.7.3

Does each draft use that specific date (Oct 27, 2016) no matter when you create it? Or, it uses the correct date when the draft was created as the publishing date? So if draft was created Dec 15, 2016 it will use that date instead of Mar 26, 2017.

Just want to clarify.

^V

Ok good, this is default behavior not an issue. So now we simply need to update the date to the correct one when you publish posts. We do that with this code, which should be put into your theme’s functions.php file:

function post_published_date( $post )   
{  
    // Apply this to posts only 
    if ($post->post_type == 'post')   
    {  
        // Update the date 
        $pub_post = array(  
            'ID'            => $post->ID,  
            'post_date'     => date("Y-m-d H:i:s"),  
            'post_date_gmt'     => date("Y-m-d H:i:s")  
        );  
      
        // Update database  
        wp_update_post( $pub_post );  
    }  
}  
add_action( 'draft_to_publish', 'post_published_date' );

When you hit Publish, this will automatically update your date. If this solves your issue, don’t forget to mark this topic as resolved. Thanks 🙂

^V

@amyls

Happy to help. The code snippet should work on any posts in draft status that are published. It uses built-in hook that WordPress provides “draft_to_publish”. So when a draft is published, it takes on published date instead of original draft date.

I tested it on a draft I had created in March, and when I hit “publish” it used April 1 as the published date.

Does your setup use anything custom like a custom post status maybe?
Do you usually hit “publish” button inside post edit screen? Or use some other method to publish them?

^V

@amyls You’re welcome! I’m happy to hear that this worked for you. Do mark this topic as solved please, so others know this has been resolved 🙂

^V