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Bulk date update reports success but changes nothing

Bulk date update reports success but post dates and sitemap dates stay unchanged.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

6 public reports · first reported 17 December 2018 · last reported 25 January 2024

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Many site owners run a bulk date update, see a success message listing dozens or thousands of posts, then find the publish or modified dates unchanged on the front end, in the database, or in the sitemap.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 6 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.