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dateModified earlier than datePublished for scheduled posts #20782

Open jeroenrotty opened 11 months ago

jeroenrotty commented 11 months ago

Moved from: https://yoast.atlassian.net/browse/IM-38

Describe the bug

When a post is scheduled and eventually published, the dateModified schema and the article:modified_time and og:updated_time tags are set to the date when the post was scheduled. However, the datePublished schema and the article:published_time tag are set to the date when the post is published.

Consequently, the post appears with a modified date earlier than the published date which is incorrect.

To address this, in all post save and publish actions, we should synchronize both date values to the most recent value.

Why should we fix this

Google may wrongly interpret the modified and published dates as saying that posts are modified before they have even been published.

Impact

Users of Yoast SEO scheduling posts.

To Reproduce

  1. Install and activate Yoast SEO
  2. Create and schedule a new post
  3. Wait for the post to be published
  4. Go to frontend and inspect date tags and schema markup (see screenshot below)

Screenshots

date-modified2 date-modified1

Workaround

A user in the community provided this workaround. The workaround involves editing plugin files and would need to be reapplied after each plugin update.

jeroenrotty commented 11 months ago

Please inform the customer of conversation # 626324 when this conversation has been closed.

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jeroenrotty commented 11 months ago

+1 https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datemodified-younger-than-datepublish-for-planed-articles/

jeroenrotty commented 11 months ago

+1 https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modified-date-before-publishing-date/

RitchelLauron commented 7 months ago

Please inform the customer of conversation # 1105552 when this conversation has been closed.

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maybellyne commented 2 months ago

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maybellyne commented 2 months ago

+1 https://wordpress.org/support/topic/published-date-higher-than-updated-date-when-scheduling-posts/

RitchelLauron commented 1 month ago

Please inform the customer of conversation # 1161020 when this conversation has been closed.

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