Can I change the dates on old blog posts

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  christopherlong729 · Member · Apr 25, 2013 at 1:32 pm

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  Is it possible to change the date of the blog posts I’ve already posted? And if so, how do I do that?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Apr 25, 2013 at 1:50 pm

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  Yes, you can edit the date on posts:
  Look at the “Publish” module and where it says “published on DATE” click the word “Edit” and change the date. Update.

  It is, however, not a good idea to edit dates. Dates are part of the link to each post, so when you alter the date on a post you are changing the link. If the post is indexed by a search engine it will be with the old date. Readers will not find the new-date post because the link was changed. The will see a “404 not found” error. This is very bad for your search engine optimization.