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July 11, 2003
Drafting, Posting, and Modifying
Overnight, I thought about the post I made yesterday regarding de-publishing. I'm working up an editorial policy to make it clear to my readers (both of you!) what is subject to change, what is not, and to be able to represent that changes have take place through representation of posted vs. modified dates.
One of the few frustrations I have with Movable Type is that MTEntryDate is always the date of the creation of the entry (e.g. when you clicked on "New Entry") and not the posting date. I frequently create a post and use Movable Type's draft mode to save it while I work on it. Sometimes, I might not post it for a day or two. If I don't remember to manually change the entry date, I wind up "posting to the past" because the date defaults to date of creation, not date of posting.
What I would like is, for each entry, to be able to automatically indicate the time and date of creation, the time and date of posting, and the time and date of the last update.
The LastModified MT plug-in gets me that last part. I haven't been able to find the appropriate combination of MT tags or plug-ins that will allow me to automatically distinguish the "created on" date from the time of posting.
Thoughts? Solutions?
Posted July 11, 2003 07:50 AM