Display the Last Modified Date for your posts on Wordpress

Wordpress now a days is being used as more than a blog. People are using it for many different reasons. One of the cool parts of this software or any other blogging software is that it lets you post mark the date the article was published on. Which is great. But what if you have to make updates and still let the readers know that you updated it.

So basically if you are running a contest, and it is one of your featured posts, so your readers can check it. You can use these codes to display the last date the post was modified on, so they know how recent the information on that contest page is.

Well I was thinking about it and I came across a site called Adramis where I found this code.

So basically all you have to do is head over to single.php and/or page.php and search for

Posted on: <?php the_time(‘l, F jS, Y’) ?>

It might not exactly be like that but definitely have something like that. Well now all you have to do is replace it with the codes below:

Posted on <?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?>
<?php $u_time = get_the_time(‘U’);
$u_modified_time = get_the_modified_time(‘U’);
if ($u_modified_time != $u_time) {
echo "and last modified on ";
the_modified_time(‘F jS, Y’);
echo ". "; } ?>

Now when you write a post, it will show the post date, but once you have modified anything the date will change. This looks like a great tool that you guys can use and implement into your site.