Back Date WordPress Posts With The Post Timestamp
A WordPress blog has the ability to to edit the published date of a post to an earlier date. This WordPress guide shows how to use the Post Timestamp option. This may be useful if you have articles from a static website that you want to incorporate into the archives of a your WordPress blog. Or of you want to give your blog a more established look.
It is very easy to edit the published or post date of a WordPress post. To do this when creating a new post or editing an existing one, look over to the bottom right side for the Post Timestamp. You can place any date in there you want even back to a date before the blog existed. Your posts will show on the main page in chronological order based on the Timestamp.
If you don’t have more than 10 posts they may stay on the first page of the blog until enough new posts are made to push them off because a default 10 posts show on the main blog page. You can specify the number of post shown on the fist page in Options, Reading, under Blog Pages edit the “Show At Most xx Posts”.
Using the WordPress Post Timestamp is useful to build your blog content quickly but still give it the look of a well established blog.
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A WordPress blog has the ability to to edit the published date of a post to an earlier date. This WordPress Guide shows how to use the Post Timestamp option. This may be useful if you have articles from a static website that you want to incorporate int…
This is a very helpful tip….especially if one is going to be away from the computer for awhile. It allows you to bank some pre-written posts, and specify publishing dates.
Jeff, thanks for posting this.
Richard
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especially if one is going to be away from the computer for awhile. It allows you to bank some pre-written posts, and specify publishing dates.
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Thanks this helps
… but does backdating mean that search/indexing won’t work on the post?
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Jeff Replied:
July 31st, 2009 at 8:03 am
Huh? The post will be posted on the date you specify.
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How do I hide the date completely?
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Jeff Replied:
August 30th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Hiding the date or timestamp requires the code on the themes files to be edited. That can be tricky and somewhat involved.
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Thanks for the info, but I don’t see the “Post Timestamp” button on the bottom right corner. Please help. Thanks!!
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Jeff Replied:
June 26th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
The timestamp has probably moved to a different location since this post of so long ago. Look near the top right.
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FYI, I am trying to set the post date to february 2nd of year 1916, with NO SUCCESS; as soon as I save the post it set TODAY as the published date.
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Chris Replied:
March 13th, 2011 at 11:16 am
I am having exactly the same problem. I’m trying to create a historical site with archive material from 50s and 60s etc- but WP will only show the date I publish at the top of the post.
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Using the WordPress Post Timestamp is useful to build your blog content quickly but still give it the look of a well established blog.
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I love the possibility to change the publishing date to the past (even if it is for some days or a week or two).
But what happens with the feeds? Will these be published too or will this only happen on posts with actuall or future dates?
If those posts with dates in the past are automaticly added to the feeds, is there a way how to prevent a post being published on the feed itself? Especially inserting archived posts dated some months and years ago, I would like to prevent them published at my subscribers lists.
Someone to enlighten me?
Cheers,
Wyando, still puzzled about wordpress and feeds
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