Editing publish date for imported cms items

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There is currently no way to edit the created/published date/time for items, for some reason. This is severly hindering me as I’m importing thousands of blog posts with creation dates in the past. I can of course make a date field and import the original dates there, but I don’t want to manually enter a date and time for every new blog post I make after that. Why can’t we just edit the field that’s already there? Am I missing something?

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On a similar note - letting us set a publish date in the future like this would automatically create a barebone scheduling system.

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Could also really use this! We’re migrating our 5-year old website from Wordpress, including all old news items, and it would be really helpful to be able to map the old dates to the publication date field on Webflow!

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Got told by customer support to make another custom date field in the items before importing. That …kinda fixes it but not really.

Not sure why Webflow are dragging their feet on this. This should be a really easy fix.

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This might not help when the posts are in the thousands but I found a manual workaround for sorting at least.

I imported my old blogs and mapped the original publish date to a new “previous publish date” field. I saved them all as drafts and then re-published them on my new site, one by one, in the original order. The publish date resets every time a post is unpublished so you can still sort by publish date. On the post itself, I used the “previous publish date” field so that it displays the original date of publish but the sorting is technically based on the new dates.

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WHY is this not fixed… If you want to incentivize larger websites to migrate to Webflow, basic feature requests like this need to be implemented.

Republishing (i.e. changing the published date when transferring a site to Webflow) a blog post without significant changes to the content can viewed as a deceptive practice by Google’s algo.

This isn’t complex to change and it’s been referred as an issue on these forums since webflow CMS’s inception. Can webflow please explain what’s happening regarding this issue?

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