Here we are again. Cory’s back from Burning Man and new time travel threads are showing up. We went nine days without any repeats, excepting that rogue Frauenfelder post that never showed up on Cory’s tumblr, and now we have Wikipedia’s dumbest arguments posted at 9:15pm EDT on Sept. 6th.
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@eviltrout can we prevent very old posts from triggering topic creation? Say anything more than a year old?
I took a quick peek and it doesn’t seem like the created_at date is being passed over by the wordpress plugin. We do support it optionally via the api.
It looks like it needs to be added to wp-discourse – additionally it occurs to me that we could put the same check on the wordpress side. In other words, don’t send over something whose date is over X.
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OK, we need to get the latest version of the WordPress plugin installed here anyway, it has been bugging me for a while that BBS entries don’t show the comment count any more @beschizza. Can we schedule some time with @orenwolf to make this happen?
I’m on a cruise until mid-next-week. Happy to do it then!
–Ken.
OK cool @eviltrout can coordinate with you to make the magic happen.
Have fun! (And quit checking your email!)
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Excellent! I was wondering where they went. If I just need to use a different function that’s easy too
I’ve spent some time working this out. The problem seems to be caused by editing old posts when using a blogging app that communicates with WordPress through XML-RPC - this would include apps like the wordpress.com desktop app. It should be fixed when you update to the latest version of the wp-discourse plugin. If not, open an issue here https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse/issues and it will get taken care of.
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I’ll admit, after the huge influx of today’s time travel posts, I was actually sad to see some of them closed as they were interesting. 
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