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“You down with OPP, yeah you know me!”
The OPP, or Old Post Promoter, is a plugin designed for Wordpress by the Blog Traffic Exchange. The primary function of the plugin is its capability to promote older blog posts by reviving them and returning them to the front page and sending them back in to the RSS feed. The Old Post Promoter randomly chooses a post from the eligible posts in the blog and updates the publication timestamp on the post in question. When the timestamp on the post is updated, the post will appear to be the latest post on your WordPress blog, returning it to the front page of your blog and revitalizing its content accordingly.
** Do not use this plugin if your Wordpress Blog’s permalink structure includes dates! **
**Remove Date from Permalink Structure.**
The installation process is easy and you can begin using the plugin immediately, bringing old content back to the forefront of your blog again.
Installation Directions:
1 - Download the plugin using the link below or this one: Old Post Promoter.
2 - Once the zip file has been downloaded, unzip it into someplace that will allow you to easily retrieve it.
3 - Locate the folder and upload it to your Wordpress Plugins folder in the web space where your blog is hosted.
4 - Activate the Plugin in the admin section of your Wordpress blog.
5 - Optional: Adjust the options for the plugin to better suit your needs.
Some of the options that are included with the Old Posts Promoter plugin include:
- Minimum interval between old posts promotions, allowing you to determine how often the plugin will automatically choose and revitalize a blog post for you.
- Randomness interval, which will be a contributing factor in when posts are randomly chosen and revitalized in your blog.
- Post age, which allows you to designate how old a post must be at the very least in order to be eligible for the post promotion process.
- Show original publication date, which will add the original publication date to the bottom of your revitalized posts if you choose to.
- Categories to omit from Promotion, which will protect posts in certain categories if you do not want them to be eligible for promotion by the plugin.
Here are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about the Old Post Promoter Wordpress Plugin:
Q: Isn’t this plugin simply creating duplicate content?
A: No, because all the plugin is doing is changing the original timestamp of the publication. In other words, there is only ever one copy of the post in your blog.
Q: If you change the timestamp of your blog post, won’t that affect permalinks that include the date?
A: Yes it absolutely will, which is what the warning is all about. This plugin should not be used with any permalink structure that includes dates, which is just another obvious reason for why you should not follow such a structure.
Q: Your plugin is really awesome. I would like to remove the dates from my permalink structure so that I can use it - So what do I do?
A: Thank you, I am glad that you asked. Here is a blog post written specifically to address how to remove dates from permalink structures.
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- Old Post Promoter Current Version 1.4
** Once again, do not use this plugin if your Wordpress Blog’s permalink structure includes dates! **
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Change Log
- 01/23/09 - 1.4 - Refactored cod to facilitate long term code maintenance.
- 12/30/08 - 1.3 - Better Options Control.
- 12/20/08 - 1.2.2 - Fixed link to BTE showing when not appropriate
- 12/19/08 - 1.2.1 - Minor Documentation fix
- 12/18/08 - 1.2 - Added Promote position
- 12/8/08 - 1.1 - Release to public.
Originally posted 2009-02-02 05:25:14. Republished by Old Post Promoter
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26 comments ↓
Just downloaded your plugin, I will give it try
Fantastic plugin! I’ve just uploaded it to my blog and it works great and the interface is soooo easy to use! Thanks BTE!
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
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Thanks Kevin, I’d never heard of this before, gonna check it out, its a great idea.
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Is there a way I can use the plug-in but to remain the NEWEST POST (for example, today posts) always on top? This way I can promote old post on the second scroll and keep the fresh content on top.
@Hernan
That is a great idea… I will implement that for the next release in a week or so.
There is promise to this plugin. I recommend using it with the the redirection plugin and while your at it altering your old post slugs to remove trash words.
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This is a good plugin. I think you should make the full name show up in the WP-Admin Plugins list (Old Post Promoter, not OPP for the name, so it is memorable what this plugin does when you look again later). Also I have had problems with OPP forgetting the options I had set when I deactivate, reactivate, or upgrade it. I have had to reset the options sometimes. Other than that, it is a very useful plugin. Thanks again.
@DG
With the latest 1.2.2 the settings are held during deactivate, reactivate, and upgrade. I apologize for the inconvenience.
I will also change the menu with the next release. Although I am not current planning on anything large enough to justify a release, so if you have feature suggestions lay them on me.
glad you like it…
Nice job it works great! I’m curious to see which posts pop up at random!
just another note, BEST WP PLUGIN!!!!!!!
Wow I am impressed. I wanted a solution to a problem of introducing old posts to new visitors, now I have it. Great job!
I got this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_category_checklist() in /home/outsidem/public_html/thatsmyanswer/wp-content/plugins/old-post-promoter/BTE_OPP_admin.php on line 160
it’s in the place where I could omit categories. What do I do?
@indigo
Please upgarde to wordpress 2.7
Your plugin is very cool and i like it very much, thanks man for sharing such a nice thing.
I am using wordpress 2.3.3 and your plugin is not working properly as it randomize the posts but dont show
“categories to omit from promotion”
and
Update OPP options button so i dont save settings.
Plz tell me how to show options button to save settings ?
I know i can solve this problem by updating my wordpress but i dont wanna update it so plz plz tell solution for wordpress 2.3.3
Thanks for this plugin, works great!
I will use this plugin.Thanks you
i like it
Very good plugin, thanks for share!
Hi,
Is it possible to add a mention “OLD ARTICLE” for all the posts which are promoted to the homepage ?
Thanks
@w
With different wording this is already a feature.
nice plugin, i will try it, i will come back soon, after something changes in my blog
Thanks… I’ll be giving this a go. I’m currently using your related plugin, but am having a high bounce rate - so figure that I can re divert some traffic back into my old posts before sending them away.
It’s a great plugin but it would be better if we can choose post not only by category but a post that we want to promote.
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