[wp-testers] Publishing with WP a time-related content

[Peter Westwood]

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Luc Saint-Elie wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A little suggestion, I’m not sure if it’s a core-related one or a plug
> in-related one….
> 
> My weblog exists in its current form since 2005.
> I let all I have written online, so today it’s possible to read
> something I wrote back in 2005
> 
> This allow people browsing through the site to see the evolution of
> things I’m writing about (mainly photography and image related tools and
> technologies) .. and the evolution of my relation with them.
> 
> So far so good.
> 
> My problem is that my weblog is pretty well referenced on Google (kudos
> WP pretty permalinks and Google Sitemap plug in)
> 
> In the past I’ve written some articles that have even today a pretty
> nice success.. but they are  completely out of date.  A camera that was
> a very advanced and rather “breakthrough” kind of back in 2005 is
> perhaps  today, with today state orf art,  a old fashion poorly featured
> one, and the advice I had in 2005 is perhaps in today situation nearly
> laughable today.
> 
> This is of no problem for those who arrive by the front page and “read”
> the site (not a lot of people), but this can be a huge problem for those
> who arrive on the site, using a direct link from a search engine (the
> biggest part of readers).
> 
> The second category of people is fooled by been sent posts that are out
> of date with nothing stating they are out of date.
> 
> So.. so It would be nice to have a feature (that could be set on and off
> for those that are not concerned by this problem) that would allow a
> post whose age is more than X months  to have some kind of settable
> alert that would say something like “This post is X months old, the
> content is perhaps no more pertinent, please use the search system to
> see if I wrote something else about this subject since”.
> 

I don't think this would require any core WordPress changes.

It sounds like you would just need to add something to your theme to
output the message based on the post date or year etc.

You could also use one of the plugins that provides a related-posts list
to helpfully link to articles that may be more up-to-date

westi
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Peter Westwood
http://blog.ftwr.co.uk
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