Posting old photos?

Photoblogging
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I have a bunch of old photos I’d like to post, back-dated to the date I originally took the photo. Assuming this is possible, what’s the best way to do this?

I’ve tried posting a couple of the old photos, and then changing the date of the post, but now they are showing up multiple times on my Photos page, which is not what I expected to happen.

I’m new to micro.blog, so if I’m completely misunderstanding how to use this product, feel free to let me know.

My photos page is here: https://bradlau.net/photos/

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Following up on this: It looks like the photos that were showing up multiple times on my Photos page eventually disappeared and the extra posts got cleaned up too. The clean-up just took a lot longer than I expected.

(My mental model for blog tools is from the Movable Type days, where as soon as you saved a change, everything got rebuilt immediately.)

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Micro.blog does a fair bit of caching versus a full rebuild each time. It will eventually execute a full rebuild, but especially for category pages and photo pages, that’s not done instantly. You can execute a full rebuild manually at the top of this page, which may be worth doing under some circumstances.

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That’s helpful, thanks @jsonbecker.

Does anyone happen to know if there’s a way to make .webp files show up on my Photos page?

I see now, that when I filter the Uploads page to “Show photos only” it doesn’t show .webp files. Is this intentional or a bug/oversight?

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What appears on the photo page can be controlled by the theme, plug-ins, or by you, if you’re comfortable with a little HTML and code tweaking, using a custom theme.

I’m not 100% sure, but I think the plug-in called Photos and Screenshots might make .webp files show up on the Photos page.

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Thanks, @sod, your comment about the plug-ins the piece I was missing.

I was able to get this working via the settings for the theme I’m using, mnml. It has a settings section for the Photos category.

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