How To Change The Date Of A WordPress Post

As all bloggers know, sometimes you want to post to your blog but change of the date that the blog was posted.  You might want to change the date to some time in the past, or you might want the post to be dated some time in the future. WordPress lets you do both of these things.

By default, WordPress will provide today’s date and time and add that automatically when you publish your post. If you want to make a blog post look like it was published some time in the past, then all you have to do is look over to the right of the page, just above the ‘Save’ button and where it says ‘Publish immediately’, click on ‘Edit’.  A date/time box will drop down and you can change the date and time.  Hey presto, you’ve rewritten history! Changing the date to a prior date will also change the order of posts as they appear when scrolling down your blog.

You can also change the date of a post you’ve already made. When you go in to change or update your post, look above the ‘Save’ button for the prompt that says ‘Published on’ and you can change the date shown.

And yes, you guessed it, you can change these dates to some time in the future! This can be handy when you want to write a number of posts on one day but have them published over the coming days or even weeks.

To set this up, simply create the post as usual, but before you hit ‘Publish’, change the date to the date and time when you want the post to appear. Then, when you hit ‘Publish’, WordPress will keep that post and only release it on the date and time that you specify. You can stack up loads of posts this way to make it look like you’re tending to your blog when really you’re lounging in your hammock sipping Mojitos!