Title: Year Updater
Author: Emmanuel Chekumbe
Published: <strong>Enero 11, 2023</strong>
Last modified: Pebrero 20, 2024

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# Year Updater

 By [Emmanuel Chekumbe](https://profiles.wordpress.org/smartkenyan/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/year-updater.zip)

 * [Details](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/year-updater/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/year-updater/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/year-updater/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/year-updater/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/year-updater/)

## Description

The Year Updater plugin allows you to update the titles of posts with a specific
year in their title. For example, you can use the plugin to replace the year 2023
or previous years in the post titles with the current year.

Updating year in blog post titles is an Old SEO trick that might give you a boost
in the SERPS.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * When you visit settings, year update, you get to input the current year screenshot-
   1.png
 * [[
 * A preview of how your posts will look after you update screenshot-2.png

## Installation

There are two ways to install Year Updater.

 1. Go to “Plugins > Add New” in your Dashboard and search for: Year Updater
 2. Download the .zip from WordPress.org and upload the folder to the `/wp-content/
    plugins/` directory via FTP.

Option one is easy and faster.

## FAQ

### Do I need to keep the plugin after updating the year?

No, you don’t. After you update, you can remove the plugin. The changes will remain
on site.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Year Updater” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Emmanuel Chekumbe ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/smartkenyan/)

[Translate “Year Updater” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/year-updater)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/year-updater/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/year-updater/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/year-updater/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/year-updater/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.3.1

 * Improvement – Added custom post meta to reflect the change
 * Improvement – Introduced batch processing to prevent timeouts on sites with many
   posts
 * Fixed an issue where only 1 post was getting updated

#### 1.3.0

 * Organized the main plugin file for better readability and maintenance.
 * Refined the method for updating the year in post titles.
 * Introduced namespace usage for better code organization and to avoid name conflicts.
 * Modified the approach of querying posts to enhance performance, particularly 
   for large datasets
 * Minor code improvements

#### 1.2.0

 * Better and faster code implementation
 * Added a new settings page in the WordPress admin area for the plugin.
 * Implemented a system to query all posts of a given type and display them on the
   settings page.
 * Added functionality to update the year in post titles, edit the post’s modified
   date, and add a post meta field ‘year_updated’ with the new year.
 * Included error handling and success/error notifications.
 * Added a check to skip posts with the current year in their title.
 * Added a message above the ‘Update Posts’ button to inform users that posts with
   the current year in their title will not be updated.

#### 1.1

 * The preview.php file was updated to show a table of the old and new post titles
   rather than a list.
 * The update.php file was updated only to update the post titles and not the post
   content. It was also updated to use the wp_update_post() function and the update_post_meta()
   function to update the post data and add a custom field to mark the post as updated.
   Inline documentation was added to both the preview.php and update.php files to
   explain the code and its purpose.

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3.2**
 *  Last updated **2 tuig ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.4.8**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/year-updater/)
 * Tags
 * [title](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/title/)[updater](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/updater/)
   [year](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/year/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/year-updater/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Emmanuel Chekumbe ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/smartkenyan/)

## Support

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