: Is changing the post date regularly (around every month) going to be bad for SEO? I am using a theme which does not allow me to change the front end order of custom posts (I have tried

@Correia994

I'm not 100% sure on the effects of changing the post date on SEO. I suspect it will not be good.

Adding an order field to your custom post type (like you have with pages) isn't very hard. Here is a question on Wordpress Stack Exchange which explains it: wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/65494/custom-post-type-order-field
Basically you need to add 'page-attributes' to 'supports' when registering the custom post type. for example:

register_post_type('myposttype', array(
'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'page-attributes'),
'hierarchical' => false
));


You can then set 'orderby' => 'menu_order' on the query you want to use the custom order. The way you do this depends on how the query is set up.

This question also has some useful info on using orderby with the page-attributes menu order: wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/20722/query-menu-order-custom-post-types

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