Title: Post dates are draft dates?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Post dates are draft dates?

 *  [silsurf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silsurf/)
 * (@silsurf)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-are-draft-dates/)
 * For the last six months every time I post to my blog it uses the date I started
   the draft of that post as the post date?
 * I did not not intentionally change anything and would love to have the post date
   always be the date and time I actually post the item?
 * Am I doing something wrong here? Thanks for any feedback.
 * Henry

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 *  Moderator [Jose Castaneda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcastaneda/)
 * (@jcastaneda)
 * THEME COFFEE MONKEY
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-are-draft-dates/#post-6718333)
 * Hi there!
 * Are you able to test with all your plugins deactivated or a bundled theme like
   Twenty Fourteen/Fifteen?
 *  Thread Starter [silsurf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silsurf/)
 * (@silsurf)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-are-draft-dates/#post-6718447)
 * I guess it was a theme thing? I seems to go away when I switch to a default theme?
   I was using Penscratch, which really worked for me, but not if it is creating
   bugginess?
 *  Moderator [Jose Castaneda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcastaneda/)
 * (@jcastaneda)
 * THEME COFFEE MONKEY
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-are-draft-dates/#post-6718465)
 * Is it this one:
    [https://wordpress.org/themes/penscratch/](https://wordpress.org/themes/penscratch/)
 * That is super odd if it is that particular theme. If not, try reaching out to
   the theme’s author.
 *  [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/)
 * (@questas_admin)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-are-draft-dates/#post-6718466)
 * You can CHANGE the date/time in the post editor. It defaults to the original 
   date you created the draft.
 *  Thread Starter [silsurf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silsurf/)
 * (@silsurf)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-are-draft-dates/#post-6718491)
 * I felt like I used to create drafts and then the DATE/TIME was always reflected
   upon the PUBLISH date, not the DRAFT date? If I am wrong, thats fine, but is 
   there way to have that be the default, that the PUBLISH date is the date in the
   feed?
 * Thanks,
 * Henry
 *  Thread Starter [silsurf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silsurf/)
 * (@silsurf)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-are-draft-dates/#post-6718523)
 * Is there some way to make the publish date default? Without having to deal with
   each adn every draft in the post editor?
 * I now see that the post are published as the draft date (which does not really
   make sense to me, but)
 * Henry

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [silsurf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silsurf/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-are-draft-dates/#post-6718523)
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