Lost–A Glitch in the WordPress Posting System
Ironically, my post for the Daily Prompt (Entitled Lost: The Ones that (Fortunately) Got Away) has been lost in the Reader. Has anyone else noticed that when you post a draft, it posts for the time the draft was first saved (As you were working on it) and not the time it was actually posted? This has consequences if people find you on the Reader.
For instance, sometimes I have an idea for a post that I put into drafts but actually don’t write and post for a week or so. I started noticing that none of these posts showed up in the Reader. Sometimes I would create a totally new posting and this one would show up. Then I discovered that the Reader was posting them at the time the draft was first closed down after being saved.
Unfortunately, not many people go that far back in the Reader to look for posts. When I get to one I’ve already read, I take it for granted I’ve read all the ones deeper in the stack. But this is not so if the person posted a draft started hours or days before it was posted.
If you don’t believe this, look for my posting I just posted at around 1:05 p.m. today on the Daily Post site. It is titled “Lost, The Ones That (Fortunately) Got Away.” Although it showed up immediately in the Daily Post site, it was not posted as a recent posting in the Reader. I finally located it buried in posts from 5 hours ago. A strange glitch in the system.
If you use the reader, you’ll never find the posting I just made without going a loooooong way back through posts you have probably already read. For your ease in wandering, I’ve made a hyperlink above, but you can also find it here: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2015/09/24/lost-the-ones-that-fortunately-got-away/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Yes, this is true.
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I did notice it was behaving weirdly, but I ALWAYS check the time in the posting time box before I publish and I schedule everything in advance, even if it is just a few minutes. WordPress has gone through a lot of iterations of their interface, some worse than others. I don’t trust any of their software without double and triple checking everything.
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But I don’t know any way to change it without entirely reposting a new post…
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When you save it, do you save it as a draft?
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Yes…Sometimes I’ll jot an idea down as a draft meaning to come back to it and won’t for several days or weeks. Bad idea…It will post on Reader on the day I established the draft. Same with posting the same day. I started the draft, got distracted and finally posted it 5 hours later. The post for Reader was registered for 5 hours earlier, thus getting lost in all the posts that had happened since. Strange.
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I haven’t had this problem, but that’s probably because I’m ALWAYS behind on my postings, and I’m writing them and putting them out at the last minute. I wish I was more organized. I do. I hope the problem gets worked out.
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I think they are still experiencing fallout from the virus someone let loose a week ago on about 10000 WordPress blogs. Your’s is the only notification I have seen all day, no other posts. Very odd indeed! Lary
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This has been going on for a long time. Not a new problem. But, I hadn’t heard about the virus…Darn. Hope they get it straightened out. Do you think you are affected? I have a Mac so perhaps that is why I wasn’t. Thanks for letting me know, Your Majesty!!!
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Thanx for the heads-up. Perhaps one solution would be to draft off-site?
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Or just leave it as a reminder, but then trash it and begin a new one when you are ready to actually post it. Or….ask if they can change how it is set up. Think that is likely to happen?
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I first noticed months ago that when I post a post from my saved drafts, my FB publishes it under the title under which it had been saved, even if I change the title before publication. At the same time I noticed that not all of my posts appear in the reader. Then I discovered this: If I start a new document from Dashboard (and get the old editing page), all goes well, but if I start it in any other way – with the “beeep-beeep-bop” notification as it’s opening (by clicking on the pencil icon up right, for example) – it does not show in the reader. I remember asking about it in technical support, but I didn’t get any useful answers. From then on I just open all new or saved documents from the menu in Dashboard and all is good. I hope this is not too confusing.
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I’ll try, Manja. I haven’t received any answers on tech support either, although they are very very nice. Actually, they haven’t been popping up lately, so they are perhaps all busy trying to solve current problems. I do, however, love getting advice from other bloggers such as yourself and I’ll certainly heed your advice. I often times open from the prompt page but that seems to create the same problems as using the pencil. I didn’t know you could open from the Dashboard, which I’ve never been entirely sure how to access. Sometimes it shows up and sometimes it doesn’t. My main problems are when I open a draft but don’t complete it for hours or days or weeks. That is when is posts in the Reader as being published on the date begun instead of the date actually completed and posted. I’ll try your solution. Thanks so much for taking the time to post it. xo
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You should be able to go in an manually change the time/date. If worse comes to worst, save it as a draft with a scheduled time.
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I’ll try this, Relax, but believe even then it posts differently in the Reader. I’ll do a test and if you are right, you’ll win a thousand plaudits. (Wish they could be dollars,but you know . . .)
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Wow, just in time — my plaudits drawer is full of mellowcreme pumpkin candies, and plaudits have far fewer calories! I do hope it works — I’ve always had that problem, and have so far been successful in changing the post’s time/date.
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Okay, now I need to be informed about mellowcreme pumpkin candies! As though I need a new vice. They sound delicious.
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