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1. reboltutorial
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I want to setup a historical blog with date < 17th century, but wordpress doesn't cope with these kind of dates ?

   How to solve this problem ? Should I write directly to the database by bypassing WordPress ?

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   That won't help. Any date before Jan 1 1970 could be problematic and may not display correctly. I think you need to leave the post date alone but use a custom field to enter your historical date. Then you could edit your theme's templates to use this custom date in place of the post date.

3. reboltutorial
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yes but the problem is sorting the post by date then.

4. ryans149
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   yea, I think you can edit the database to change the date..

5. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You can sort posts by meta value, so using a custom field would be a solution as esmi stated.

6. gosunatxrea
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Backdated pre-1st January 1970 post displayed as published on the current viewing day
   http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10332

   Bug with backdated post before 1 January 1970 - wp2.8
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/285531?replies=15

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