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How to republish your posts with a different date in WordPress?

Republishing a WordPress post to another date can leave behind a 404 error in WordPress.Today I will tell you how to tackle with such stuff.It is kinda easy you have install a plugin , you need two hands and yes a head with brain in it :P 

Requirements

  • Install this plugin in WordPress Simple-301-redirects.
  • Open notepad and keep the old url of the post you want to republished saved with you.

Step 1

After installing and activation of Simple-301-redirects plugin for WordPress go to Settings >> 301 Redirects, it will look like the screenshot below.

Redirection-wordpress

Step2

Now if your domain is domain.com and that post had the url link like domain.com/2012/06/some-post and you republished it in 7th month now its url will be like domain.com/2012/07/some-post. (This depends on your permalink structure).

Now in the first box add /2012/06/some-post & in the second box add /2012/07/some-post.

rEDIRECTED

All this will do is the url in first box wil be redirected to url in second one.This will be a strict 301 redirect, and will not be bad for SEO.

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10 replies on “How to republish your posts with a different date in WordPress?”

Nice walkthrough! You may also want to consider covering how to REMOVE dates on a blog post. I recently removed all my dates, in order to make my content more “evergreen”, and not as date specific.

Nice work!

Tommy

Great post. I usually back away from things that sound too technical, but I think I could try this. I like the step by step instructions.

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