Backdating HubSpot Blog Posts: What the Community Learned

If you need to publish historical or release-note style posts in HubSpot, the Community thread “How can you backdate a published blog post?” lays out what to expect: HubSpot provides a publishing-date control — hidden behind the dropdown arrow on the Publish button — that lets you set a post’s publish date to a date in the past.

That said, users report mixed results. Some members confirm the approach works (set the publishing date to the desired past date and publish), while others found that their posts still appeared with the actual publish timestamp rather than the backdated one. A few contributors said the feature seems geared more toward scheduling future posts, and that selecting dates further in the past can be limited or not behave as expected.

A few practical notes that surfaced in the discussion: a backdated publish can take some time to reflect on the site, and ongoing edits may cause the publish date to update — which makes maintaining an older publish date more work. In short, the Community’s experience is that HubSpot does offer a backdating control, but its behavior can be inconsistent depending on timing, subsequent edits, and how the system updates the visible publish date.

If you’re planning a large import of historical posts or relying on backdating for release notes, the Community thread suggests testing the process on a few posts first so you can see how your specific HubSpot instance handles backdates and subsequent updates.