# Automatically Reflect Timestamp of Old WordPress Posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-reflect-timestamp-of-old-wordpress-posts/88254
**Category:** WordPress
**Created:** [May 23, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-reflect-timestamp-of-old-wordpress-posts/88254 "2018-05-23T14:04:25Z")
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### Author:  [@josue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/josue)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-reflect-timestamp-of-old-wordpress-posts/88254/1 "2018-05-23T14:04:26Z")
Is there a way to have Discourse posts automatically use the timestamp of the original WordPress post?
I’m publishing all the old WordPress posts from a blog to a Discourse and changing the timestamp manually after each post. Is there another way?
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-reflect-timestamp-of-old-wordpress-posts/88254/2 "2018-05-25T17:51:38Z")
This could be added as an option to the plugin’s Publishing settings. One thing to note is that setting the `created_at` parameter for a Discourse topic to a time in the past affects the topic’s position on the Discourse topic lists. A newly published topic with it’s `created_at` value set to two months ago will not appear at the top of the latest topics list. I’m not sure that most sites would want this behaviour.
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### Author:  [@josue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/josue)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-reflect-timestamp-of-old-wordpress-posts/88254/3 "2018-05-25T18:11:22Z")
Thanks! This particular use case is for a Wordpress site that hosts a podcast. I’m replacing the comments with Discourse and creating a topic for each episode. I’d like the topics in Discourse to reflect the date each podcast episode was published and not when the topic was created. I did it manually but was curious about another way.