How can you backdate a published blog post?

[TDegrande]

We want to publish some release note related blog posts highlighting key features per release, and also do it for historical releases. Can we backdate blogs with a publish date in the past?

[Jen0910]

I recently published 10+ blog posts and gave them all older dates when I published.  They are all just showing up at the top of the blog page with the actual publish date - not the date that I specified.  Why isn't this working?  I swear it worked in the past.  

[Phil_Vallender · Accepted solution]

Hi @TDegrande 

To do this you set the publishing date in the publishing options (hidden behind the dropdown arrow on the publish button) to your desired date in the past.

See here for more info: Set a blog post's publish date and time

If everything still works the same, blog posts published with a date in the past will not trigger blog digest emails or automatic social publishing. Keep an eye on things thought in case anything unexpected happens. 

Hope this helps?

[CPye]

I've tried this and it doesn;t work despite HubSpot confirming the schedule update was successful. Seems like the function is geared towards scheduling future dates but not backdating. Used to be able to do that easily by selecting diary date. 

[CPye]

It turns out that it does work, it just took a while to update.