Wordpress Minor Edits Hack
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
One of the more irritating aspects of Wordpress, at least from a feed subscribers perspective, is that minor edits cause the last-updated date to change. The knock-on effect is that the post will find its way back to the top of an atom feed causing readers to see it again. Not the desired effect if you are, for example, correcting an insignificant typo, updating a moved link or adding a category, and even worse if you were to reorganise categories and thus blitz your poor readers with a whole batch of old posts all at once.
In the brief time I’ve looked at this, I haven’t managed a plugin-only solution, but what follows is a fairly simple hack to allow you to specify that a particular edit is minor, and thus get Wordpress to leave the last-updated date alone.
