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Changing the publishing date
5 replies · Started by Kathrin on April 11, 2021
Hi, when I overwork my old articles I republish them with the new date. This works fine for Google and the new date is shown, but when I share those articles in Social Media like Flipboard there is most of the time the old date shown. For example my new post was published in 2017 for the first time, but published today once again and Flipboard shows the date from 2017. How can I get rid off that problem?
The Sitemap shows the new date.
Greetings Kathrin
Hi there,
i checked the site and the only time tags in the site are displaying the latest date - there is no reference to the original published date.
Is this happening on all social media sites you share to ? Or just Flipboard ?
In the first place it happens on Flipboard, as you can see here: https://imgur.com/a/Xj4BXz5
The article was published today but it shows a date 4 years ago :(
Flipboard itself writes: The RSS-Feed needs the <pubDate> the publication date of the article, compliant with RFC822 standard. If not present then the system will use the first time it was processed as the publication date.
Where I can see and how can I proof that the RSS-Feed contains the pubdate?
Could it be that something like that <pubDate><?php echo mysql2date( 'D, d M Y H:i:s +0000', get_post_time( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', true ), false ); ?></pubDate> is missing in the theme? Because it's a little bit strange before the change to GeneratePress it worked fine and all old articles published under GeneratePress show the old date and not the new one :(
The rss-feed shows that:
https://www.topfgartenwelt.com Gartenblog | Foodblog | Familienblog Sun, 11 Apr 2021 12:09:39 +0000 de-DE hourly 1 https://www.topfgartenwelt.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Logo_Dunkelgrau-min.png https://www.topfgartenwelt.com 32 32 https://www.topfgartenwelt.com/topfgartent-zwergbaum-vs-saeulenbaum-zwergkirsche-saeulenkirsche https://www.topfgartenwelt.com/topfgartent-zwergbaum-vs-saeulenbaum-zwergkirsche-saeulenkirsche#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2021 12:05:00 +0000 https://www.topfgartenwelt.com/2017/04/28/topfgartent-zwergbaum-vs-saeulenbaum-zwergkirsche-saeulenkirsche/ Weiterlesen ...]]>
Greetings Kathrin
Greetings Kathrin
If i look at the RSS feed then for your latest article i see:
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2021 12:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
Like the site there is no reference to the old date in the Feed.
I am not sure how Flipboard gathers its data but they may be using a cached instance of the post for that kind of data.
Hi David, I asked at Flipboard what is the problem and it seems that they have a very special algorithm that recognizes if an article was already published or not... So it seems that Flipboard only works with really new articles...
Greetings Kathrin and thank you very much for your help!
Well that explains it :)
Glad to be of help
