Is there a way to backdate posts on WordPress?
The reason is that I am migrating content over from another site and want to keep their original publishing dates.
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The content is being migrated manually from a non-wordpress website
asked Jan 31, 2012 at 16:23
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You've written a comment in both places saying you can't set a publish date to 2011. Why not? That's a standard feature of WordPress ... so are you getting an error? Or is there another reason? Both answers are sufficient for a typical WP installation, so without more info on why they don't work for you, there's not much more we can offer.– EAMannCommented Jan 31, 2012 at 18:49
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I have just reinstalled WordPress, and the year area is now there. No wonder I was confused about how to do it.– Graeme HutchisonCommented Jan 31, 2012 at 21:35
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To manually edit publish date, click the Edit link in the Publish box when editing a post and set the date to whatever you'd like.
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Doesn't WordPress preserve publish dates when using the import tool? Commented Jan 31, 2012 at 16:37
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@StephenHarris - I imagine it would, though I have no experience with it personally. It wasn't clear how the content was being migrated.– MiloCommented Jan 31, 2012 at 16:45
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@Milo edited question for clarity. I cannot backdate posts to 2011 in the WordPress publish menu Commented Jan 31, 2012 at 16:47
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@Graeme Hutchison - what happens when you try, does the date not update? can you change month and day, just not year?– MiloCommented Jan 31, 2012 at 16:53
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There's a difference between modification and creation date.– kaiserCommented Jan 31, 2012 at 17:52
You can set the date of any post to any time (setting it to the future will publish the post in the future at the date you set!) Here's what I mean:
If you go to edit a post, you should see this, and here is what to do as well:
