• I think the short question is: when creating a post by email is it possible to set the original publication date to the correct past date when the post was originally added (to the former site)?

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    I’m helping a friend recreate her blog which was unfortunately totally lost when the small local provider suddenly went bellyup. In short, no backup is available. The site luckily has just a few static pages but over one hundred posts.

    I have discovered the joy (!) of creating posts by email (using a generated wordpress.com address) which supports a number of shortcodes. She can do this herself. With one more feature, this email technique would be perfect for her needs.

    That feature is: set the original publication date when adding an old post to the new recreated site.

    I cannot find a shortcode that will do that?

    I have seen that it is possible to created custom shortcodes, and if that appears to be a viable solution, I’ll have a go at it.

    I do see how to manually change the post date but would prefer to avoid that, as well as to learn a better way to handle what must be a common enough need.

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  • Thread Starter gponym

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    Adding on….

    This might state the main question more clearly: We are rebuilding a site from scratch. We are adding posts that had been created over a period of several years on the former site. We add these posts via Jetpack’s email to post facility. These emails use shortcodes to set category, tags and title. The post date defaults to the current date.

    When emailing the post, I’d like to set the post date to the date on which the post was originally published, which might be in 2014 or 2015, not the current date. I am hoping there is some way to do this, perhaps using shortcodes.

    I know we can later quick edit each post and set the date, but it would be so much more efficient to set it in the email.

    I don’t know of any other email to post facility.

    Thread Starter gponym

    (@gponym)

    I submitted an informal feature request to the Jetpack team asking them to add an option to allow setting publication date in their email to post tool.

    Thread Starter gponym

    (@gponym)

    Submitted feature request to the Jetpack forum on www.remarpro.com.

    I assume at this point that action by Jetpack maintainers is required but may be mistaken. I’m new to WP and know little of PHP or JSON, so I looked at some source on Jetpack github without it telling me anything about how incoming data is parsed or shortcode data is utilized in calls to WP.

    Ideally, one could readily add support in a file or two at Jetpack but I was unable to figure out where to make changes.

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