Title: Default Post Date
Author: Thorsten Frommen
Published: <strong>March 6, 2015</strong>
Last modified: December 15, 2015

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# Default Post Date

 By [Thorsten Frommen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tfrommen/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/default-post-date.1.5.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/default-post-date/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/default-post-date/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/default-post-date/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/default-post-date/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/default-post-date/)

## Description

**Define an individual default post date that is to be used when adding a new post.**

Have you ever had to create a fair amount of posts that all should be published 
on an individual date other than today?

Maybe some reviews of an event a while back? Or a bunch of essays scheduled for 
the day after tomorrow?

This is exactly when _Default Post Date_ kicks in.

#### Contribution

To **contribute** to this plugin, please see its [**GitHub repository**](https://github.com/tfrommen/default-post-date).

If you have a feature request, or if you have developed the feature already, please
feel free to use the Issues and/or Pull Requests section.

Of course, you can also provide me with translations if you would like to use the
plugin in another not yet included language.

## Screenshots

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 * **Setting** – Here you can define the default post date.

## Installation

This plugin requires PHP 5.3.

 1. Upload the `default-post-date` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory on
    your web server.
 2. Activate the plugin through the _Plugins_ menu in WordPress.
 3. Find the new _Default Post Date_ setting on the _Writing Settings_ page in your
    WordPress backend.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Default Post Date” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Thorsten Frommen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tfrommen/)

“Default Post Date” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/default-post-date/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Default Post Date” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/default-post-date)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/default-post-date/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/default-post-date/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/default-post-date/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/default-post-date/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.5.1

 * Add missing vendor folder for autoloading.

#### 1.5.0

 * Complete refactor.
 * Use composer autoloader.
 * Refactor tests.
 * Compatible up to WordPress 4.4.

#### 1.4.1

 * Move settings field to Writing Settings.
 * Rename plugin option.

#### 1.4.0

 * Change namespace root to ‘tfrommen’.
 * Compatible up to WordPress 4.3.1.

#### 1.3.2

 * Code styling and house cleaning.
 * Compatible up to WordPress 4.3.

#### 1.3.1

 * Escape translated strings.
 * Compatible up to WordPress 4.2.4.

#### 1.3.0

 * Complete refactor.
 * Compatible up to WordPress 4.2.3.

#### 1.2.0

 * Complete refactor.
 * Improve date sanitization.
 * Compatible up to WordPress 4.2.2.

#### 1.1.0

 * wordpress.org release
 * Compatible up to WordPress 4.1.1.

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.5.1**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.9.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.4.34**
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/default-post-date/) and [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/default-post-date/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/default-post-date)
 * Tags
 * [bulk](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bulk/)[date](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/date/)
   [post](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)[posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)
   [publish](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/publish/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/default-post-date/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Thorsten Frommen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tfrommen/)

## Support

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