As much as blogging can be fun and lucrative, it can also be frustrating. Most blogging software has been designed with the average user in mind but every now and again glitches arise. When you’re goal is to make a successful blog and you have no technical background, these minor problems can have you pulling out your hair.

Several of our clients have contacted us in the last few days with the same problem: posts they have published in the backend of the blogging software are not showing up on the front-end. They swear they have done nothing different from any other posts they’ve published on their own and can only assume it’s a technical issue.

The difficulty turned out to be the blogging software’s version of a New Year’s practical joke. The bloggers were editing the existing timestamp to post their posts at an earlier date (for various visual and time-dependent reasons). However, the default year is the year in which we are currently in. So, when they adjusted the month, they believed the software, like most systems today, would intuitively change the year as well.

The articles they published in the program were waiting until December 2008 to be published on the web!

If you happen to be blogging and using WordPress, save yourself wasted time and a few hairs on your head when backdating articles at the end of the year. Don’t fall for the prank and check the year!

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