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
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.
Edit
The content is being migrated manually from a non-wordpress website
Share Improve this question edited Jan 31, 2012 at 16:46 Graeme Hutchison asked Jan 31, 2012 at 16:23 Graeme HutchisonGraeme Hutchison 2252 gold badges4 silver badges14 bronze badges 2- 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. – EAMann Commented Jan 31, 2012 at 18:49
- I have just reinstalled WordPress, and the year area is now there. No wonder I was confused about how to do it. – Graeme Hutchison Commented Jan 31, 2012 at 21:35
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Reset to default 3To 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.
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: