Update blogpost

[Jandev]

I was trying to update a (published) blog post via Live Writer, but it failed telling me the post already exists, which is true of course.

I didn't see an option on the site to modify the text of my post so I had to resort to updating the XML file stored on the server. This wasn't very hard and luckily one most of the time does not have to update a post, so it's not much of a problem to update a file manually.

Now, there is a problem I am facing now. The posts are all being cached so the changes aren't reflected back on the post.
I think this cache will get refreshed when publishing a new post, but it would be nice if there was an easy way to update the cache via a button or something like that. Or just to re-publish the original post.

I've also tried updating the excerpt, saving the post, but the Publish link keeps being disabled.

Is there a way to update the cache already, am I missing this, or should one persue a different workflow for such situations?

[codewithtyler]

I ran into a similar issue today. I had created a new post but didn't publish it as I wanted to finish it later. Then when I came back to it I decided to change the post's title. Sadly this did not update the slug in the XML file nor did it update the link to the post. I edited the XML file manually and got the slug updated but the link to the post is still the old slug. It's like the value is cached somewhere.