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Discussion on: Using a GitHub organization to organize blog posts — also accidentally hacking Hacktoberfest!

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Wajahat Karim 🇵🇰

Very nice article and tip.
I have a query which is not related to the article though. How did your article date come with the line "Originally posted on Medium" as shown in this image:

The Medium text

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Russ Hammett • Edited

That's a canonical link:

canonical link edit post

You can set up certain RSS feeds on dev.to to pull posts from other sites more or less automatically. I'm using my medium account as the RSS feed so that I can cross post the stuff I write there, to here.

settings rss

EDIT: Oh, the button on the initial comment wasn't doing anything, but seems to work for edit. Too bad I can't just paste images in :D

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Wajahat Karim 🇵🇰

This was very helpful Russ. Much appreciated to explain in details :) Thank you!