Stephan Miller

07 Feb, 2008

My Wordpress Time Machine

Posted by: Stephan Miller In: Blogging| Wordpress| Writing

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time-machine I think most of us know the advantage of setting our timestamps ahead on our posts. I am here but I am not. For all you know, I could have written this post a year ago.

Windows Live Writer has made this a little bit easier. I have posts in every stage of being finished. From some that only have titles to ones I have already uploaded to this blog. It gives me  a lot of options with my time.

But what about setting the timestamp for an earlier date. I didn’t realize the usefulness of this until lately.

This blog’s theme has gone through a lot of changes. Up until four or five months ago, I didn’t get that many posts in. This site was mainly a half-assed portfolio. A chronological list of my abilities. I don’t have a degree. I haven’t had a "job" in this industry until lately. I needed some proof of experience.

In the last four months, this blog has progressed in something more, and though I don’t think there were too many regular readers before, writing the same type of content I used to may not fit in with the new readers.

If I want to finish up my tutorial on importing datafeeds into Drupal or go more deeply into the Clickbank Marketplace xml, some readers may say, "what the heck?"

The solution: set the date back so I can still provide the newer content to newer readers and tie up some unfinished business on older posts.

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7 Responses to "My Wordpress Time Machine"

1 | David Bradley (11 comments.)

February 7th, 2008 at 9:17 am

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I think that’s a reasonable thing to do, although I’d label anything time sensitive just for the sake of honesty. Like if you pre-date a post announcing this week’s lottery numbers, say!

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2 | Stephan Miller

February 7th, 2008 at 9:25 am

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I don’t really have that many posts in a holding pattern that I would have to do that yet, but that will help in the future.

3 | SEOjr Search Engine Optimization (3 comments.)

February 8th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

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I wrote a post about this a while back even though I’m not using it. Maybe because I don’t have that many posts yet. Maybe some day.

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4 | RennyBA (3 comments.)

February 9th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

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Haven’t thought about it that way but of course you have a good point here - thanks for sharing you knowledge and experience!

Since new here; You really have a readable blog - keep up the good work - Hello from Norway - wishing you a lovely Sunday and a great week ahead!

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5 | Stephan Miller

February 9th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

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I’ve only used it twice so far, but it has come in handy. I watch my stats pretty well and noticed hits coming in for subjects I hadn’t wrapped up yet.

6 | David Bradley (2 comments.)

February 29th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

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Stephan, as you know, I just posted my follow-up to your post on ST…CommentLuv should pull it in and save me adding a link ;-)

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7 | Stephan Miller

February 29th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

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Thanks David. I just stumbled your post and it will be in my link post tomorrow also.

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