# How to edit post with API without bumping topic?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 1, 2021, 5:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-post-with-api-without-bumping-topic/192248 "2021-06-01T05:04:48Z")\
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So you just…poll something and if there’s news then you stick it in, say, a custom site setting, and add it to the serializer and stick it in somewhere with a plugin outlet?

Something like that?

EDIT: Oh, it’s so much easier than that. I’m still programming in the 1990s.

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