WordPress – Set post_date

February 12, 20236 Views

I’m trying to set the post_date of a blog post to WordPress via XMLRPC.

I’m sending the data as a string:

$pubdate = '2010-04-08 13:46:43';

'post_date'=>$pubdate,

It appears 'post_date' is correct?

I also found this post losely related to the issue: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/330597

Can anyone suggest how I would post the date as: dateTime.iso8601

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2 comments

Anonymous says:

February 12, 2023 at 11:37 am
Have you tried this ?
```
$pubdate = date('c',strtotime('2010-04-08 13:46:43'));
```
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
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Anonymous says:

February 12, 2023 at 11:37 am
To post the date as a <dateTime.iso8601> element (assuming you’re using the built-in XML-RPC client within WordPress, you want to cast your date as an IXR_Date object.
```
// Convert the time to an integer value for parsing.
$pubdate = strtotime( '2010-04-08 13:46:43' ); 

// Convert the date to the right kind of object.
$pubdate = new IXR_Date( $pubdate );
```
Now, when you pass your array of arguments to make the request, passing 'pub_date' => $pubdate will create the correct XML element.

See this other answer to a similar question for more information if you want a full, working example.
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