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  • Owain Williams 432 posts 1288 karma points MVP 3x c-trib
    Mar 23, 2015 @ 11:47
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    How to back date a blog post?

    Hi, 
    I'm currently manually moving old blog posts from Orchard CMS over to Umbraco Articulate and I was wondering, how do I back date a post?

    What I want to do is copy the content from my original post and make the created date be the date I originally posted it. Not, for example, today's date. 

    I tried changing the information within the post but it still shows on my blog as posted / created today. 

    Thanks,

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  • Dennis Aaen 4457 posts 17970 karma points admin hq c-trib
    Mar 23, 2015 @ 19:21
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    Hi Owain,

    Perhaps you should take a look CMS Import package https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/cmsimport from Soeteman Software

    WIth this package you can import content or members from any datasource into Umbraco. The following datasources are supported by default:

    • Access Database
    • BlogML
    • CSV
    • Excel File
    • RSS Feed
    • SQL Server
    • Umbraco
    • WordPress
    • XML

    There is a free edition, and a pro edition, you can see the difference between free and pro features here. http://soetemansoftware.nl/cmsimport/features

    Hope the CMS import could be option for you to solve your problem.

    /Dennis

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  • Owain Williams 432 posts 1288 karma points MVP 3x c-trib
    Mar 23, 2015 @ 23:26
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    Thanks, this seems to be the standard reply on here :) I was just looking at ways to do it myself.

    I've now ran CMSImport, after creating the SQL command that I needed and it does seem to have worked.

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  • mike 90 posts 258 karma points
    Mar 24, 2015 @ 03:54
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    I guess you could have added the create date to an additional property then after import ran a loop to update create dates to the date in property.

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  • Shannon Deminick 1510 posts 5195 karma points hq
    Mar 24, 2015 @ 23:19
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    Hi Owain,

    Each blog post has a manual date field called "Published Date" it exists directly under the 'Excerpt' field - you'll see it. Just change that. The blog date has nothing to do with Umbraco's internal create/publish dates.

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