I’m sorry to announce that my new blog LeveVeg is closed until I find out how to remove the stupid date of my permalinks. This mean a post’s url is broken if I want to update it, which is intolerable. When I find out this all posts here will be republished, meaning all permalinks will be broken. Therefor, best not to link directly to any of the posts.
I’m not sure of which blog I’ll publish on meanwhile? Check both NATURKONSERVATIV and PERMALIV.
According to the following video there should have been a Permalink Setting, at 1:15 min. Unfortunately I don’t seem to have this function. If anyone can help me I’m more than thankful!
I’m forced to leave WordPress for the benefit of Blogger, as WordPress has an intolerable error with its permalinks
I tried to find a solution on WP forum, but was sorry to find there’s no real solution, except WP changes it’s policy.
Read the forum’s thread.
My response:
I’m very sad to learn this! I do now have to return to Google’s Blogger, where there’s no date in the permalink. If I add new stuff to an old post, f.ex. new images, I must have the possibility to repost it at the top of my blog without changing the date, i.e. the permalink, and break all former links leading to the post.
I can’t understand why WordPress can be this stupid? To pay is no alternative, as there’s nobody to pay the hosting costs after my death:
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/hosting-your-website-after-death–cms-23492
Still I might re-post some galleries and some of my most important work in WordPress, to make it accessible if Blogger goes black after my death.
Anyway, for me it’s more important to have my writings and galleries up running after my death, than having a fancy blog.
I really encourage WordPress to remove the date from the permalink in the free blogs, so that people depended on reposting old improved stuff on the top of the blog, like it’s a new post, can do so without breaking the permalink.
In Blogger I often find an old post I see can be improved, as I all the time gather new information and images. Then the post becomes like new and deserves to be republished as new, but with the same permalink, on the top of the blog.
As it is now people who take their blogging seriously and steadily improve their posts, are forced to leave WordPress for the benefit of Blogger.
Please fix this MAJOR error in WordPress! Yes, I see it as an intolerable error.
WordPress should install Automatic Publishing button like Blogger!
I do now realize that Blogger has a date, it’s just that the date doesn’t update if I republish the post as a top post. Blogger has a button called Automatic Publishing, and using this the post always enter the top, with the same permalink, including date.
Here’s an example from 2015/05 (link), reposted on 12th December 2016 (post):
http://permaliv.blogspot.no/2015/05/victoria-hotell-i-gjvik-ar-1900.html
I think WordPress should install this button, Automatic Publishing, as well!
LeveVeg 
I’m sad to hear your frustrations with WordPress.
First and foremost, the setting referred to in the video is a setting in the wp-admin window of a self-hosted wordpress.org installation, not a wordpress.com site.
That said, I’m not absolutely sure I get what the problem is, because if I update a post or page on my wordpress.com site, but keep the original post/ page title, no change is done to the url. Changing the title will change the last part of the url by default (the part after the date, which reflects the post or page name), but this can be edited manually back to the old url or any other.
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No, I get a new date, and then the old superlink is broken. So I must get rid of the date in the URL. Then I’ll repost all my posts without a date in the superlink.
WordPress is nice, and if the only way to get rid of the date is to pay, I might do so. But I will first search the world for a way to get rid of the date using my current blog template.
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Quite confusing. When I update a post, nothing happens to the date in the url at all. Or to the url per se, unless I change the post’s title, but as mentioned in the above comment, this is manually editable. Could be a theme dependent detail whether the date by default changes with post updates or not.
But look next to the “Publish” button in the “new” WP post editor, there’s a small drop-down menu with a calendar icon. That’s where you manually set the date of any given post. You can’t leave it blank, but it can possibly fix your problem if you set the date back to the original date before hitting “update”.
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But then it will not become the top post on your site. There’s no point in updating a post to be left way down in the archives. If I update a post in Blogger from 2011 and set it on automatic publishing, the post will be reposted on January 23. – 2017. Everybody will think the post is brand new, still those who linked to the post back in 2011 can use the same permalink.
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Ah, I see your point now. If there’s no kind of automatic redirection involved that would let you re-publish with a new date and still use the old permalink (you’ve tried this, yes?), this is of course inconvenient for certain types of use. The only workaround I can come up with from the top of my head is to keep the old permalink, but pin the updated post as a sticky post on top of your blogstream page for a few days, so that it will be visible to visitors. Then unpin it and let it back down in the blog’s basement. I know it’s not ideal, and it will not notice e.g. all your email subscribers, but it will be visible at the top for as long as you want. You could eventually consequently also pin the newest post above it (I think) to make sure people see that one as well.
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Eventually make a sidebar widget or a sticky post with links to old, but recently updated posts.
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Thanks for advices! Still it’s important for me that when I upgrade an old post nowbody will understand it’s a refreshed post, but that they think it’s a brand new post. This will make it easier to update my blog more regularly, to keep readers attracted, with refreshing old stuff rather than to make new stuff from the ground every time. So WordPress is too static for my way of blogging.
I still really can’t understand why WordPress made their template so static? Was it really necessary to add the date to the permalinks? Doesn’t WordPress like flexible bloggers?
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I do now realize that Blogger has a date, it’s just that the date doesn’t update if I republish the post as a top post. Blogger has a botton called Automatic Publishing, and using this the post always enter the top, with the same permalink, including date.
Here’s an example from 2015/05 (link), reposted on 12th December 2016 (post):
http://permaliv.blogspot.no/2015/05/victoria-hotell-i-gjvik-ar-1900.html
I think WordPress should install this button, Automatic Publishing, as well!
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Ok … If Blogger keeps the old date and you use the “Automatic Publishing” feature to place the updated post on top, still with it’s original date, this sounds more or less like a variant of what I suggested you could do in WP; adjust the date back to original if it’s being changed by default after updating a post, and pin post to top. In both cases it’s possible to read from the url what date the post was originally published, so this doesn’t make Blogger’s platform more discreet about your re-postings.
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I will check if this is possible to do!
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I tried to, and to post a new post after, but the post doesnt become part of the natural flow of posts, like in Blogger. So after a while I’ll get hundreds of sticky posts on top og the blog flow, resulting in that new posts will appear at the bottom of the blog.
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When I posted a sticker on my post https://leveveg.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/kulturhistorisk-vandring-etter-fossemollen-2-ved-olterudelva/ all content disappeared. Luckily I copied it to Blogger, but it’s a job to get it back. Something similar happened with other posts as well.
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Another tread I started on the subject:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/can-i-edit-superlinks-in-a-premium-com?replies=4#post-2975192
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One more: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpressnet?replies=1
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– How to find out who own PermaLiv.WordPress.org?: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-find-out-who-own-permalivwordpressorg?replies=1#post-2975964
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