To replace Publication date Meta with Last Modified date

[lopreg]

Please, how can I show Last Modified date to tell readers and search engine bots when a content on my site was last updated?

I will like to show something like “Last Updated: September 1, 2017” , in place of the actual publication date, as can be seen on the image below.

 

[Kieran_SQ]

Hi,

Thanks for contacting us today, I’ve looked into your question and you’ll either need to do a lot of child theme customizations or use some sitewide code. The latter options is probably the best, please have a look at this article posted by WPbeginner on August 30th 2017 http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/display-the-last-updated-date-of-your-posts-in-wordpress/.

They add the below code to the Child theme’s functions.php

COPY CODE

function wpb_last_updated_date( $content ) {
$u_time = get_the_time('U'); 
$u_modified_time = get_the_modified_time('U'); 
if ($u_modified_time >= $u_time + 86400) { 
$updated_date = get_the_modified_time('F jS, Y');
$updated_time = get_the_modified_time('h:i a'); 
$custom_content .= '<p class="last-updated">Last updated on '. $updated_date . ' at '. $updated_time .'</p>';  
} 
 
    $custom_content .= $content;
    return $custom_content;
}
add_filter( 'the_content', 'wpb_last_updated_date' );

You can use the below CSS class to style your element to suit your needs

COPY CODE

.last-updated {
} 

Hope this helps,

Kieran.

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[lopreg]

Hello KieranSQ

I added the suggested code to the Child theme’s functions.php but the output was on Pages and not posts. Please, how can I make this work on Post pages only?

[Kieran_SQ]

Hi,

You do not appear to be using the post meta on your single posts, try enabling this to see if the above code works.

You can go to Theme Options > Blog > Scroll to: Meta settings to enable date meta for single posts

See here for example: https://www.campusportalng.com/education/post-utme-news-updates/27098/.

Thanks,

Kieran.

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[lopreg]

Hi KieranSQ

I had actually disabled Meta for only that particular post. I have re-enabled it now and the above code still does not work. Please, check again

[lopreg]

Here is an admin login details for my site is;
Username: Squeen
Password: 2^SMQEKX1AOPAWQvHGgVyfdS

Thanks for your anticipated kind response

[Kieran_SQ]

Okay, I am going to ask my colleague @Radu look at this for you as this should work – they may well have better ideas on how to achieve this.

Please can you update the post with some login credentials, they’ll be in touch with you on Monday or Tuesday.

Thanks for your patience,

Kieran.

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[lopreg]

I have already attached the login credential to my last response. I will be waiting for their response then. Thanks

[Radu]

Hi,

Revert back all of those changes/snippets and use this instead: https://pastebin.com/raw/k72fn2X7

Just copy that code to wp-content/themes/kleo-child/functions.php

NOTE: Child theme needs to be installed and activated.

The Last updated date will be displayed only on the post pages somewhere else the normal.

Cheers
R.

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[lopreg]

It worked! 🙂 Thanks a lot @Radu and @KieranSQ

[Radu]

You’re welcome

Cheers
R.

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