# Fix published date and author for topics created via wp-discourse-embed plugin

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/fix-published-date-and-author-for-topics-created-via-wp-discourse-embed-plugin/49681>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Tags:** wordpress\
**Created:** [September 3, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fix-published-date-and-author-for-topics-created-via-wp-discourse-embed-plugin/49681 "2016-09-03T18:48:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fix-published-date-and-author-for-topics-created-via-wp-discourse-embed-plugin/49681/2 "2016-09-04T17:13:12Z")

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This helps me to figure out some more about how rake works and seeing `PostTimestampChanger` is helpful because it’s taking me a long while to figure out those internals.

My question started out as “why not just add this rake tool to Discourse?”

My answer is that `users:fetch_wp_data` isn’t included in `lib/task/users.rake` because it depends on an external plugin. And then I wondered why bother to delete it, but I think that’s because if we don’t remove it when we’re done, we’ll get into git problems when the next pull happens?

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