Show Last modified date manually in WordPress

Note: Customizing your WordPress theme involves editing it’s different files which may need a little expertise with WordPress coding standard and development. It’s always better to backup your theme before editing. The recommended way to customize your theme is to do it locally (i.e. on a local WordPress installation rather than on your live site).

In order to show the modified date instead of the post published date, you need to edit some of your theme files. So, lets start, if you want to show the last updated date in your single (or full) post, just edit the single.php and look for the <?php the_date(); ?> or <get_the_date(); >. If you’re not able to find the two functions, look for the template that has been called in the file to execute the loop. Try to figure out where these two functions are executing and replace it with the below code:

<?php the_modified_date('l, F j, Y', '<div class="the-modified-date">', '</div>'); >

The first parameter (highlighted in red) in the above function is the format of our date. That value there will display our date in this fashion: Sunday, May 12, 2013. Read more about Formatting WordPress date and time.

Value of the next parameter (highlighted in green) would be text or markup that should appear in the starting of our date. In the example code, I’ve added an opened HTML division tag since I wanted to put the date in a division.

Similarly, the next parameter (highlighted in blue) will carry value that should appear after the date. I’ve added a closing HTML div since I’ve placed and opened div tag in the start of the date. Check out the output I obtained by making the changes.

If you don’t want to show anything before or after the date, leave the parameters blank. Feeling confused? Read more about the_modifed_date function at WordPress codex.

You may repeat the process for the files page.php to show the modified date on pages.

WordPress plugin to show last modifed date

I’ve written a WordPress plugin called Revised Meta tag that allows you to add last modifed date to your WordPress posts and pages in a controlled way. The main purpose of the plugin is to add revised meta tag to WordPress posts and pages, but you can opt-out if you don’t want the plugin to do that.

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Let me know your thoughts, suggestions and questions on this.

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Note: This is the support page for the WordPress Revised meta tag plugin, and all the support and troubleshooting will be provided here only.

Revised Meta Tag Plugin: Features

• Allows you to add revised date meta tag in your posts and pages either together or separately.
• Provides you with options to display the last modified / last updated date above or below your posts and pages. You can also choose from four different date formats and the position of the timestamp in WordPress Posts and Pages which can be either above or below.
• Allows you to customize the text which is to be displayed alongside the last modified date (i.e. “Last updated on:” in place of “Last modified:”)

Plugin FAQ

1. What is meta ‘revised’ tag?

The “meta revised tag” is used to tell the last modified date & time of a webpage to various web crawlers (Google, Yahoo!, Bing etc.). Read more about Meta revised tag.

2. I don’t want to show revised meta on archive pages (index, category, tags etc.) and Homepage. What should I do?

By default, the plugin is already optimized to show the revised meta tag only on posts and pages, and you can opt-in and out anytime to show the tag in them as well. So, you need not to worry about the Homepage and various WordPress Archive Pages.

3. The Date and Time inserted by this plugin is dependent on what?

The plugin make use of your WordPress Date, Time and Time zone (Dashboard » Settings » General). Double check your Date, Time and Time zone before activating this plugin. The idle time for telling the Last Modified time to Search Engines will be UTC.

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If you find this plugin useful, please provide your feedback by Rating this Plugin and by Voting in Compatibility on WordPress.

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I just came to know about meta revised tag when my friend Mrinmay Bhattacharjee told me about some sites making use of it (thanks to him for letting me know about this useful tag), and in fact, Mrinmay is also using the tag on his site MrinTech from past few days. In this article, we’ll know the use of a rarely discussed meta tag, the meta revised tag.

What is the function of meta revised tag?

Meta revised tag is used to tell Search Engine bots (Google, Yahoo!, Bing etc.) the Last Modified Date and Time of any Webpage in which you have made certain changes. Web crawlers may decide to update their index by reading this tag info on a web page.

Page with revised date in searches, and the meta revised tag highlighted in it’s markup

Meta revised tag syntax

The tag can be written as shown in the below sample code anywhere below <head> and above </head> tags in the markup of your webpage:

<meta name="revised" content="05/12/2013" />

The meta revised tag should only be provided with the last modified date (and time, optional) in it’s content parameter. The date can be in a numerical form separated by dashes (-)or slashes (/) or typical date (eg. Sunday, May 12, 2013).

Importance

Crawlers have different ways to fetch the last modified date and time of a web page. It could be done through reading HTTP headers or by comparing the updated page and the old / cached copy of the page. So, if your site doesn’t have meta revised tag implemented in it, it doesn’t mean that your site won’t be crawled for search engine indexing.

But crawlers not always perform checks to determine the last modified date of all the pages in it’s index. Here, the meta revised tag can play important role, as it provides a small last modified info to the crawler without needing the thorough comparisons to determine the same.

So, if you want to keep the crawlers updated about your content, start using meta revised tag on your site’s posts and pages.

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But in case when you publish posts frequently and forget setting a thumbnail mostly, you may want them set automatically. In order to achieve that, you need to add the below code in the functions.php file of your WordPress theme and save the changes:

<?php
function auto_featured_thumb() {
  global $post;
  $has_thumb = has_post_thumbnail($post->ID);
  if (!$has_thumb)  {
    $attached_image = get_children('post_parent=$post->ID&post_type=attachment&post_mime_type=image&numberposts=1');
    if ($attached_image) {
      foreach ($attached_image as $attachment_id => $attachment) {
        set_post_thumbnail($post->ID, $attachment_id);
      }
    }
  }
}
add_action('the_post', 'auto_featured_thumb');
add_action('save_post', 'auto_featured_thumb');
add_action('draft_to_publish', 'auto_featured_thumb');
add_action('new_to_publish', 'auto_featured_thumb');
add_action('pending_to_publish', 'auto_featured_thumb');
add_action('future_to_publish', 'auto_featured_thumb');
?>

The above code looks into your post for other images added by you, and automatically sets the first image from the post as the featured thumbnail image.

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