Title: changing post dates
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# changing post dates

 *  [bbrowde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbrowde/)
 * (@bbrowde)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-post-dates-1/)
 * I’m in the process of reconstructing a blog I took down for a while this summer.
   I’m trying to repost material under the date when it was actually written – but
   I’m having trouble changing the date from the today’s date. Anyone know why? 
   When I go to quick edit, change the date and hit “update”, I see a spinning icon,
   but it will go on indefinitely and nothing updates.
 * Any ideas?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-post-dates-1/#post-1456117)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 * – re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a **fresh** download
   of WordPress?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-post-dates-1/#post-1456117)
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