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Ciaran Gultnieks: what follows is a fairly simple hack to allow you to specify that a particular edit is minor, and thus get Wordpress to leave the last-updated date alone

I’ve extended Ciaran’s change slightly... by adding an if check preventing the checkbox from being shown if the entry has yet to be published.

So the process has been followed: from idea to ticket to patch.  The change itself is nearly trivial: two if checks, and one checkbox which defaults to the preexisting behavior.  Lots of support, just two detractors: foolswisdom and matt, citing cognitive burden as a concern.

Update: Ciaran has released a plugin, in anticipation of the next release of WP.