Migrating Old Blog Posts and Overwriting Post Date

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    poggipj · Member ·

    I am exploring using WordPress. I need to migrate older blog posts from a prior, non-wordpress, website into my new wordpress site. Can I manually overwrite the blog post’s date to what it was originally?
    Specific Example: wmcca.org – You will see there is an archive of older newsletters. I would like to migrate the most recent years of this newsletter content into a new, wordpress hosted site, but I want to retain their original dates. If I copy / paste the old content into new blog posts here, they lose their old date. Is there a way to copy a blog post from 2015, into the site here and have it appear as a 2015 post?

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  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    You can definitely back-date a post.

    The process is similar to scheduling, only you’ll just be selecting a date in the past rather than the future: https://wordpress.com/support/schedule-a-post-or-page/

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    laiann0702 · Member ·

    Hi,

    Yes, you can. In your dashboard go to posts, all posts, select quick edit and change the date and that will move the post to look like an older post.

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