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Post Updated Date

by Ataul Ghani

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Description

Easily highlight your post update date with the “Post Updated Date” plugin!!!

This plugin is a great tool for bloggers and content creators who updates their posts/contents frequently. It lets you automatically display the last updated date on each post, either above or below the content. With flexible styling options, you can easily customize the text, appearance, prefix, and position to fit your site’s look and feel.

Don’t forget to leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating if this plugin helps you!

For example, if your post Published on April 28, 2025, and you found out two days later that there was an update to the post. You can just edit the post, and it will show “Last Updated on: April 30, 2025” either before or after the post content, based on your settings. Still there showing original published date in post info. So you’re going to show both dates published and updated to the readers. And this will help you to notice your readers that blog is always updated.

Just simply install Post Updated Date plugin, set your preferences, and the plugin handles the rest.

🗝️ Key Features

  • Automatically show the last updated date on every post
  • Admin settings panel
  • Choose to display the date before or after post content
  • Fully customizable font size, color, style, and weight
  • Custom prefix text support
  • View changes instantly with a live preview panel

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Support

  1. Upload the ‘post-updated-date’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. You’re done!
  1. Settings panel

    Settings panel

  2. View of updated date before content

    View of updated date before content

  3. View of updated date after content

    View of updated date after content

Causes There has been a Critical error on this web site

By henryjdaniels on September 23, 2024

I had this on my site for a while and then my traffic dropped off and I discovered this plugin caused the error "There has been a Critical error on this web site" and took all my posts offline

useless plugin

By audioscavenger on April 3, 2024

maybe a good idea, but most themes show the last modified date. This plugin broke my site today. just today, no idea why.

to the trash.

Does not show last modified date - instead appears to show published date.

By ericscoles on February 26, 2023

Shows the published date (not the modified date, as the name would imply). Since this capability is already provided, the plugin only adds the ability to sort the column.

Excellent plugin. Every blogger should get it!

By ilovetolivewell on November 17, 2022

If you're searching for a free, "done-for-you", "ready-to-use", WordPress plugin to automatically display the "Last Updated On" date within each one of your posts, look NO further. This is the perfect plugin for YOU! And, the setup is too simple. Plus, you need NO knowledge of code. At my humble request, Ataul made it so that even my "Categories" section (a list of post titles and excerpts) would also show the "Last Updated On" date as I update posts. So, now each posts (in each of my categories) reads - published date and last updated date. You can check out the fantastic work that he did for me on my website - iLoveToLiveWell.com. He gets a 5-star for his wonderful plugin, a 5-star for his responsiveness, a 5-star for his willingness to help and a 5-star for his great customer service. Ataul has over 1,000 active users, and I'm now thrilled to say that I'm one of them! The only thing that I have left to say - Get this plugin. You'll be so happy you did! Oh, and another thing I really like is that he uses the words "Last Updated On" instead of "Last Modified On". Thanks Ataul. Keep up the terrific work! BTW, I don't personally know Ataul - I'm just loving his helpful plugin. Blessings, Dianne Wawrzyniak-Marshall

Great help with translating the plugin

By jacquibolt on June 15, 2021

The plugin does what it's supposed to do and the creator Ataul helped me with the translation of the plugin. Ataul responds very quick if you need some help! If you wanna see what the (translated) plugin looks like, you can see my posts at darmrevolutie.nl

News site likes Post Updated Date

By roncioffi on March 11, 2018

I've gone many years hoping to find a plugin to display date on our news stories on wwwTennisReporters.net. Post Updated Date allows us to do that! Great plugin!

Great Plugin, looks nice to see the update 🙂

By Ann (patsy444) on October 10, 2017

Hi, this plugin is excellent showing when the posts are last updated but it doesn't show on the blog roll when you first see it, only the original date does. I left you the link for the 2nd page where my original posts are. I have a new website so I don't have a lot of posts yet. You will see how on this blog roll the old date is there in front. On this page you will see from the bottom up the dates starting in March. **Ok so in my review the link is not showing, just an FYI for other's reading this. I didn't forget to add it. It must be just for the owner to view. Thanks** It's NOT until you click the title or 'read more' to open the post that you see the updated date which looks nice there. Also, it does NOT show BOTH dates 'together'as stated, but at least the updated date is there. Is there a way you can show the update on the blog roll for each post? It's too bad it shows right under the title and may deter the visitor from reading it. Thanks!

Great idea but one serious issue...

By now4dw on August 30, 2017

This is a great idea but because it automatically applies to EVERY post, it simply highlights that a post has NOT been updated. I have thousands of posts. Many, such as how to build a deck, are evergreen and do not require updating. This plugin 'highlights' the fact that the post has not been updated for more than five years, making it look stale even though it is still 100% relevant. The plugin needs to apply ONLY when a post IS updated. DW

Updated review: Excellent plugin, can easily be customized

By art478 on October 14, 2018

Updated 10/14/2018 - still a great plugin!: I frequently update posts on my website artchester.net and want my reader to realize that an article posted a couple of years ago has in fact been recently updated. This plugin does a great job of enhancing the post in exactly that manner! It works with WordPress 4.9.8 and with my theme (Weaver II Pro). Excellent support: the developer Ataul responded immediately to me when I asked for help with the plugin, and when I asked him to update it. To customize the formatting or the text, you can use FTP to download the plugin's PHP file from your website and find the line that begins "$awd_modified_date". It contains the HTML for the "Last Updated On" notice. Change the code as you like and FTP the revised PHP file back into the plugin folder. Someday I hope this plugin is expanded to add the "Last Updated On" tag to post excerpts that appear on Search pages and the Home Page. However, even without those enhancements, this is a unique tool that performs a very useful job!

Needs some polish

By Li-An on November 17, 2016

The plugin works but does not allow translation. And you cannot choose where to put the text (no shortcode, no function for template).

1.5

  • fixed minor bugs
  • Tested with WordPress 6.8.1

1.4

  • Added admin settings panel
  • Custom color, font size, weight, and style options
  • Position modified date before or after post
  • Custom prefix text support
  • Live preview included
  • Tested with WordPress 6.8

1.3

  • Tested with WordPress version 6.1

1.2

  • Functions upgrade for WordPress latest version.

1.0

  • First Release
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