Can I pre date posts?

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  yachtkate · Member · Jun 7, 2014 at 12:53 am

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  can I give posts a different date than when posted?
  Hello, I am just starting to use WordPress to blog, previously I simply posted on my website, http://www.yachtkate.com, directly. Can I move all the previous info to my blog and change the dates of the posts so that they appear in the archives in the chronological order they were written in?

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  diegoe · Member · Jun 7, 2014 at 12:58 am

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  Hi!

  Yeah, you can do that :)

  Go into a Post Editor screen and mind the Publish box on the right. Look for the line that says “Publish immediately” (or “Published on …”) and mind the Edit link right next to it.

  If you click that, you’ll be able to change the post publication date, or even program posts to be published in the future, take a look here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/schedule-a-post/

  Does that help?

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  yachtkate · Member · Jun 7, 2014 at 1:08 am

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  THANKS! So easy, now to begin the copy and paste of the last six years of my life, haha.

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  diegoe · Member · Jun 7, 2014 at 1:48 am

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  Are you trying to bring your content from a previous blog? We have many importers :-)

  Import a Website

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  yachtkate · Member · Jun 7, 2014 at 1:50 am

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  No, a website that I post. Easier to copy and paste I think, although time consuming. But thanks for the suggestion.