Comments on: Change the Date of a WordPress Post Edit the Timestamp

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:19:16 +0000

This has nothing to do with the permalinks. That is a completely unrelated setting. Google WordPress permalinks.

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france nike shoes — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:52:19 +0000

When I edit it now, WP generates a publishing date AND a permalink based on today. I can change the date as per your instructions, but the permalink doesn’t change. Any ideas?

By: ddd

ddd — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:20:57 +0000

Hi Oriste, I think I found an answer. Set your permalinks to default, edit the time of your posted entries, then set it back to your preferred format. I think that does it…

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:52:46 +0000

I’m running into this same issue with WP. I’m trying to import older blog entries from a blog that’s not in the import list. So I was just manually copying & pasting, but I can’t change the date in the permalink! Ewww. Not good, most certainly a bug.

So instead, I tried to get sneaky and wrapped them all in LJ export XML, thinking I could batch them in that way. No dice. The importer took this date:
2007-09-05 15:33:02

And made it December 31, 1969. D’oh! And now I can’t change *those* permalinks either.

It’s really frustrating that functionality that existed in Movable Type 2.0 isn’t here in Word Press. I’ll be filing bug reports if they don’t already exist.

By: WP Themes

WP Themes — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:40:24 +0000

This is helpful when you want a brand new wordpress install to look established

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:33:13 +0000

If the post isn’t made yet then copy it, make a new one, and delete the old draft so the PL will be all good. If you think this is a WP bug then I suggest reporting it to WordPress.org not me.

By: oriste

oriste — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:13:47 +0000

As I said in my first comment, this is a draft post that has lingered a bit too long in that status. Now that I have it completed, I want it to be published for the date that I originally intended, and I want the permalink to reflect that date. So there are no bookmarks, trackbacks, pings or anything else yet. I wouldn’t lightly change the publishing date for a post which has been in status published for a while already.

I still think it’s a flaw in the WordPress system: when you change the publishing date, you obviously want the permalink to reflect that if you chose a permalink structure based on publishing dates. Seems pretty obvious to me.

I will try following your suggestions to either post again (which I hadn’t thought of) or directly edit the table in phpMyAdmin (which I have been looking into, but the versioning in 2.6 makes this a bit more tricky).

Thanks for your thoughts and follow-up.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:00:44 +0000

I thought that might be your case if you are using the date as part of your custom permalink structure. The easiest way is to change it is to post it again. You could try to change the permalink in your database if you are comfortable with phpMyAdmin.

Why so important to change the permalink? Changing it will break all the links pointing back to the post from any sites that you (or others) may have pinged, bookmarked, trackbacked or linked to.

By: oriste

oriste — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:38:27 +0000

Unfortunately I can only edit the “name” part, if that is what you are suggesting. Isn’t that what the slug is? The date part is grayed out in the “Manage Post” view and cannot be accessed.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:14:25 +0000

You can try changing the post slug to change the permalink.