Updating a post

  • Resolved jansnm

    (@jansnm)


    2 months, 2 weeks ago

    I have the goal of adding “Published Dates” and “Updated Dates” to all my blog posts. Will this work with that? For example, if I change or update an existing post, will the plugin post to GBP?

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  • Plugin Contributor Koen Reus

    (@koen12344)

    Hey @jansnm, each WordPress post can have multiple “child” posts on GBP. Each time you check the “Auto-post to GBP now” checkbox it will create a new post on GBP. It will not automatically update any existing GBP posts though.

    Thread Starter jansnm

    (@jansnm)

    Hi @koen12344

    Let me see if I am understanding this correctly, suppose that I have a post and I have the “Auto-post to GBP” box checked, and the plugin then posts it to GBP:

    When I make updates or changes to the said post, will it automatically post to GBP again?
    Or will I need to un-check the “Auto-post to GBP” box and then re-check it again to get it to post the updated post to GBP?

    Plugin Contributor Koen Reus

    (@koen12344)

    Hi @jansnm,

    Yes that’s correct, each time you check the auto-post checkbox and save the post it will create a new post on GBP (and then the checkbox will uncheck itself to prevent accidental duplicate posts). It is kind of a remnant from when GBP wasn’t strict about duplicate posts, and posts weren’t visible anymore after a few days. The way to bring new attention to them was to simply create a duplicate post. But now that posts remain visible for a long time and Google isn’t too happy anymore about duplicate posts, it doesn’t make that much sense.

    So I’m actually planning to change that in the upcoming V4 update of the plugin, so each WordPress post will only have a single entity on GBP and it will automatically stay updated along with the WordPress post.

    ~ Koen

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