Title: backdating posts
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# backdating posts

 *  [doodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodle/)
 * (@doodle)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backdating-posts/)
 * i’d like to be able to backdate my posts. in other words, i’d like to start the
   blog on a date in the past and have the subsequent entries follow that date.
   
   can someone tell me how i might do that? is there a way to change the date the
   WP thinks today is? or does one have to change the date for each post and if 
   so how do you do that?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backdating-posts/#post-111501)
 * Advanced editing screen, edit the timestamp – bottom left
    You’ll have to do 
   that for each post.
 *  Thread Starter [doodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodle/)
 * (@doodle)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backdating-posts/#post-111514)
 * thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [doodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodle/)
 * (@doodle)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backdating-posts/#post-111532)
 * oops.
    actually, my problem was a bit more. i want my whole blog to look like
   it’s published in the past. so it appears i need the calendar that shows up on
   the righthand side to be one that corresponds to the date i’m backdating to. 
   is there a way to do that?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backdating-posts/#post-111535)
 * Not sure how far back you want to go:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/10/17110](http://wordpress.org/support/10/17110)
   If the calendar was the only problem, would your project work without it there?
 *  Thread Starter [doodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodle/)
 * (@doodle)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backdating-posts/#post-111656)
 * 1901 is plenty of backdating room for my purposes.
    but, yes, i need the calendar.
   the point is to look like a normal blog (which normally has a calendar, in my
   experience), but to appear as though the day you are looking at it is a day in
   the past (post 1901, in my case). so would there be a way to set whatever drives
   the calendar to the timeframe that concerns me? thanks for the help here.
 *  [clappingtree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clappingtree/)
 * (@clappingtree)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backdating-posts/#post-112081)
 * I cannot find [http://wordpress.org/support/10/17110](http://wordpress.org/support/10/17110)
 * Can someone give me the URL please?
 * Since there does not seem to be a satisfactory pMachine import utility, I wonder
   whether I should post all my previous entries into WordPress and then back date
   them to the same dates as before? This would mean that I’ll need to do this more
   than 200 times. However, with new categorization in WordPress, I probably need
   to edit every post anyway.
 *  [clappingtree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clappingtree/)
 * (@clappingtree)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backdating-posts/#post-112082)
 * btw, found out earlier how to backdate an entry.
 * In the Write Post page, click the Advanced Editing button. Then check the Edit
   Timestamp box, and change the date and time!
 * Only thing is: backdating entries one by one is tedious, even when I need to 
   re-categorise my entries. If only someone would come up with a pMachine 2.3 to
   WP 1.5 utility. :-p

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [clappingtree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clappingtree/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backdating-posts/#post-112082)
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