[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47726: Uploading new media to existing posts/pages backdates file location

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#47726: Uploading new media to existing posts/pages backdates file location
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 Reporter:  gaelgwp      |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Media        |     Version:  2.7
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by pento):

 * milestone:  Awaiting Review => Future Release


Comment:

 Thank you for this report, @gaelgwp!

 The exception for pages is intentional, as described in [41964]: pages
 will often be created when the site is first made, and then will be
 updated at various intervals. For example, a company may have an "About
 Us" page that lists their employees with photos, and is updated when
 someone joins or leaves the company. So, the photo uses the upload date,
 as that's more relevant than the date of when the page was created.

 Going back to the original behaviour introduced in [9663], posts are a
 much more time-based medium, so attachments to a post should have a
 matching date.

 Looking at [9663] in particular, this was introduced long before custom
 post types existed, so didn't need to take this use case into account.

 So, I think there's a reasonable case to match the page behaviour for CPTs
 that live for a long time, where the publication date has little
 relevance. Unfortunately, there currently isn't a flag for clearly
 identifying these post types.

 If someone wants to explore what such a flag would look like, we can look
 at committing it.

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