I am planning to move my uncles old WordPress website to Prismic. I would like to preserve the old publishing date in the nes Prismic posts. Looks like, I can use first_publication_date field for it, but I am unsure if it is possible to manually adjust this field. Can anyone help?

Hi @pawelgrzybek , Thanks for reaching out. In fact, it is not possible to set first_publication_date using the Import/Export feature, and In fact, I will create a feature request and send it to our @features-team to allow that as it makes total sense. A workaround would be to add a new field to y…

Yes, that makes sense. I wanted to avoid creating new field, but looks like thats what I am going to end up doing. Thanks a ton @Fares

@Fares (or someone else from Prismic). This is a pretty big problem. There is no Write API for posts and also no way to edit the First Published Date. What's the status of this feature request? A custom field as a second parameter in sorting API requests doesn't seem to be working either.

Hello @bassplayer7 , we have no updates for the moment. Check out our progress page to see all the features we're currently working on. What's new - Prismic Thanks

Any updates on this? Seems like a relatively easy feature to add that will solve a lot of problems for a lot of people (including myself).

Hi @barrymichaeldoyle , Nope, no update on this, but we'll be sure to mention it when we're discussing feature requests with the product team. Sam

Any updates on this? Seems like a relatively easy feature to add that will solve a lot of problems for a lot of people (including myself too :slight_smile: )

Hi @manuel1 , Nope, no update on this. What's your exact use case? Thanks.

Would also value this feature, and interested to know if there’s any news. Use case is we’re migrating an old static markdown blog to Prismic. We need to be able to backdate the old articles we port over, but also sort by the correct original publish date in our paginated blog listings, alongside ne…

Hey @ben.hodgson , There's no news to share so far on this feature. It's still not possible to modify the first_publication_date, you either need to add this as a custom field or recreate the pages. Your use case and what you're saying makes complete sense though, I see your vision. I've created a f…

Is it possible to change first_publication_date?

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