Editing yourself
October 21, 2007 – Libby Davy – Print
Some serious bloggers like to show where they have changed a previous post.
There are no hard and fast rules about how to do this, but I will be looking for more and more examples to help you develop your own protocols.
Gra - would you like comment?
The question was asked by someone in our Academics Blogging course, so we will look for specific examples of conventions evolving in that world. Please add a comment if you find any yourselves.
I guess the blogging convention I ‘grew up’ with was never actually remove something. If things change, then it is usual to strikeout the text
like thisto indicate it is removed, then add the correct info. You can strike stuff out by putting a del tag in front of it and a /del tag after it. Or, more easily, use the button in the Wordpress editor that shows the struck-through ABC.So, that works for changing things. To provide updates where things have changed, then I usually add a section saying Update: at the end of the post. There can be several of these, and it works nicely for tracking the changes in some issue.