Blog posting in the past

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  gemmatball · Member · Jul 6, 2013 at 3:22 pm

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  I published the second post on my blog ( if you look it’s the one about lemon water) less than 10 minutes ago, yet it says it was posted on the 1st of July and a post I wrote 6 days ago appears before it in the listing.

  I think I may have started the draft on the 1st – is that the reason? How do I go about changing this and making sure it doesn’t happen in the future?

  Thanks

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  timethief · Member · Jul 6, 2013 at 3:43 pm

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  1. You can reset your date and timezone on your blog to reflect the timezone you actually live in. The default timezone is UTC time. You can reset your timezone here > Settings > General
  Select the closest city to you in the same timezone you live in in the drop-down menu you see there and then click “save changes”.

  2. If that does not rectify the post order then how many sticky posts have you created? http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts

  3. You can edit the date stamp on the post. See here please edit post screen > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#deleting-posts I know you aren’t scheduling a post but these images may help you locate the date stamp you need to edit in the Publish module.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/schedule-a-post/

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  gemmatball · Member · Jul 6, 2013 at 4:15 pm

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  Thank you Timethief. With regards to your points:

  1. I had previously set the timezone to GMT

  2. None of my posts are/were sticky – I just checked

  3. I have managed to edit the date stamp.

  Was this due to my draft being started on the 1st and will I have to do this manually for all posts?

  It’s a massive hassle if so.

  Thanks again.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 6, 2013 at 4:27 pm

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  Was this due to my draft being started on the 1st and will I have to do this manually for all posts?

  I think it was a weird glitch and I always double check the date on my drafts before I publish so I recommend you do that too.

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  gemmatball · Member · Jul 6, 2013 at 10:53 pm

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  Will do, thanks for your help!

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 6, 2013 at 11:02 pm

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  Yes, it was due to the draft being started on the 1st. When you work from drafts, always edit the time/date before hitting Publish.

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  gemmatball · Member · Jul 7, 2013 at 11:52 am

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  Great thanks for clarifying @raincoaster – complete newbie here so I’m still learning.