Vill du visa det senaste uppdateringsdatumet för dina publicerade posts i WordPress?
Vissa websites uppdaterar sina posts regelbundet. Att visa när varje post uppdaterades ser till att dina läsare inte missar något content, hjälper till att bygga förtroende och bygger auktorisering för att öka sökmotorsoptimeringens ranking.
I den här artikeln visar vi dig hur du visar det senaste uppdateringsdatumet för dina poster i WordPress.
Varför visa det senaste updating-datumet för dina publicerade posts i WordPress?
När visitorerna viewar ett inlägg eller en page på din WordPress blogg, kommer ditt WordPress theme att visa datumet då inlägget publicerades. Detta är bra för de flesta bloggar och statiska websites.
WordPress används dock även av websites där gamla artiklar uppdateras regelbundet. I dessa publikationer är det viktigt att visa datum och tid då posten senast ändrades.
Till exempel på WPBeginner uppdaterar vi regelbundet våra tutorials och visar datumet för ”senast uppdaterad” på varje post. Om vi bara visade det publicerade datumet skulle våra läsare hoppa över posten och anta att informationen är inaktuell.
Ett annat exempel är websites för nyheter. De uppdaterar ofta gamla stories för att visa nya utvecklare, add to korrekta uppgifter eller insert media files. Om de bara visade det publicerade datumet skulle användarna missa dessa updates.
Dessutom gillar Google och andra search engines att ranka den mest uppdaterade informationen. Displaying your updated date hjälper Googlebot och andra att veta när posten senast rördes.
Med detta sagt, låt oss ta en titt på hur du enkelt kan displayed det senaste uppdaterade datumet för dina posts i WordPress.
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Hur man visar det senaste updating-datumet för dina publicerade posts i WordPress
Denna tutorial kräver att du addar kod till dina WordPress-filer. Om du inte har gjort det tidigare rekommenderar vi att du tar en titt på vår guide om hur du copy and paste kod i WordPress.
Metod 1: Visa senast uppdaterade datum före postens innehåll
Vi kommer att använda WPCode för denna tutorial, eftersom det är det säkraste och enklaste sättet att add to custom code till WordPress.
Att edit:a din sites WordPress core-filer kan vara farligt eftersom även små misstag eller stavfel kan förstöra din site. Så vi rekommenderar att du använder WPCode för att add to code snippets.
Först måste du installera och aktivera det gratis pluginet WPCode. För mer information, se vår Step-by-Step guide om hur du installerar ett WordPress plugin.
När pluginet är aktiverat, navigera till Code Snippets ” Add Snippet i din WordPress dashpanel. Search efter ”last updated date” och hovera musen över resultatet med titeln ”Display the Last Updated Date”.
Koden kontrollerar om ett posts publicerade datum och senast ändrade datum är olika. Om de är det, så visas det senast ändrade datumet före postens content. (Det är så vi gör det här på WPBeginner.)
Därefter kan du bara klicka på knappen ”Använd snippet”.
Därefter kommer du att se vyn ”Edit Snippet”. WPCode har redan konfigurerat snippet åt you.
Allt du behöver göra är att toggle omkopplaren till ”Active” och clicka ”Update” när du är klar.
Eftersom code snippet kommer att visa det uppdaterade datumet med hjälp av din sites brödtextstilar, kan du add to custom CSS för att forma utseendet på det senast uppdaterade datumet. Här är ett litet CSS-snippet som du kan använda som utgångspunkt:
.last-updated {
font-size: small;
text-transform: uppercase;
background-color: #fffdd4;
}
Så här ser det ut på vår demo website WordPress.
Dessutom, om du är en avancerad användare och känner dig bekväm med att göra det, kan du add to följande till ditt temas functions.php-fil.
Anslut bara till din webbplats via FTP eller via filhanteraren på ditt WordPress webbhotell och hitta filen i din websites /wp-content/themes/yourthemename/ folder.
$u_time = get_the_time( 'U' );
$u_modified_time = get_the_modified_time( 'U' );
// Only display modified date if 24hrs have passed since the post was published.
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' );
$updated = '<p class="last-updated">';
$updated .= sprintf(
// Translators: Placeholders get replaced with the date and time when the post was modified.
esc_html__( 'Last updated on %1$s at %2$s' ),
$updated_date,
$updated_time
);
$updated .= '</p>';
echo wp_kses_post( $updated );
}
Metod 2: Lägga till senaste Updated Date i Theme Templates
Du kan också visa det uppdaterade datumet i stället för det publicerade datumet, eller precis under det.
Denna metod är obligatorisk för att du ska kunna edit specifika WordPress theme-filer. Vilka filer du behöver edit beror på vilket theme du använder.
Många WordPress-teman använder sina egna template tags för att visa metadata för poster som gillar datum och tid. Andra teman använder innehållsmallar eller malldelar. Enklare teman använder single.php, archive.php och andra mallfiler för att visa content och metainformation.
Du måste leta efter filen som innehåller koden som är responsiv för att displaya datum och tid. Du kan sedan antingen ersätta den koden med följande kod eller add to den direkt efter ditt temas datum- och tidskod.
$u_time = get_the_time('U');
$u_modified_time = get_the_modified_time('U');
if ($u_modified_time >= $u_time + 86400) {
echo "<p>Last modified on ";
the_modified_time('F jS, Y');
echo " at ";
the_modified_time();
echo "</p> "; }
Du kan borttaga rad 6 och 7 om du inte vill visa när posten uppdaterades.
Så här såg det ut på vår demo site. Med temat Twenty Twenty-One adderade vi code snippet till filen template-tags.php i mappen inc.
Så här hanterar du det senaste update-datumet för dina publicerade posts i WordPress
Nu när vi har addat det senast uppdaterade datumet för varje post kommer det automatiskt att update varje gång you gör en ändring i en post. Men vad händer om du bara gör en liten korrekt snarare än en fullständig update, som att fixa ett stavfel eller lägga till en tagg?
För små ändringar är det oftast bäst att lämna det ändrade datumet oförändrat ur ett sökmotorsoptimeringsperspektiv. Dina Läsare kommer då att se datumet för när den senaste större updatingen gjordes på posten.
Här är några tillägg som låter dig update en post utan att ändra det ändrade datumet.
Metod 1: Använda tillägget Limit Modified Date
Först måste du installera och aktivera pluginet Limit Modified Date. För mer detaljer, se vår Step-by-Step guide om hur du installerar ett WordPress plugin.
Note: Detta plugin har inte uppdaterats på senaste tiden. Vi har dock testat det med den senaste versionen av WordPress och det fungerar fortfarande.
När du aktiverat den kommer du att se en new checkboxes när du editerar posts. Den är märkt ”Don’t update the modified date”.
När du gör en mindre update av en post, kontrollera bara den boxen och det ändrade datumet kommer ej att ändras.
Metod 2: Använda tillägget AIOSEO (rekommenderas)
AIOSEO även känd som All in One SEO är det bästa WordPress SEO plugin på marknaden. Det hjälper dig att förbättra search rankings utan att lära dig komplicerad jargong, så att du kan öka trafiken på din website.
Du kan lära dig mer i vår guide om hur du ställer in All in One SEO för WordPress korrekt.
Om du redan använder AIOSEO för att förbättra din search engine ranking, kan du använda den för att hantera det ändrade datumet för dina posts också.
Vid aktivering hittar du en new checkbox när du redigerar posts, märkt ”Don’t update the modified date”. Du kan kontrollera boxen när du gör mindre ändringar i ett post.
Detta är användbart när du bara fixar stavfel eller enkla misstag, och du kan avmarkera boxen när du gör ändringar som du vill att dina läsare och search engines ska känna till.
Vi hoppas att denna tutorial hjälpte dig att lära dig hur du visar det senaste uppdaterade datumet för dina poster i WordPress. Du kanske också vill lära dig hur du snabbar upp WordPress prestanda eller kontrollera vår lista med beprövade tips för att öka trafiken på din blogg.
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Jiří Vaněk says
Thanks for the snippet. It works perfectly. I have a bilingual website and I edited the snippet using AI so that it was in the correct language mutation on both the CZ and EN versions. But I used your snippet as a basis and it works great.
Bobbi says
How do you get Bing to pull the updated date as opposed to the original published date? I have it set up so that Google does, but Bing doesn’t seem to want to
WPBeginner Support says
If you just recently added this then you would need to give Bing time to recrawl your site’s content.
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Daniel M. says
Simply echo ”the_modified_date()” where you want to show it in your theme files.
WPBeginner Support says
That is better used within the WordPress loop if you want to use it, we recommend the second method in this guide if you wanted something similar.
Administratör
Ajit Kumar says
Hey, I am using WordPress Twenty Twenty-Three Theme I have used the above code which you provide in my Function.php Now the latest update date showing on all posts, I was waiting for Google crawling, and after Google crawled the data showed the Published date instead of Updated date.
How to get an Updated date on my Google Rich Snippet Please help I am very Thank full to you!
Thank You So Much!
WPBeginner Support says
If you remove the published date from your posts that can help have Google show the updated date instead but there is not a guarantee of the date that Google will show as Google determines which one it decides to show.
Administratör
Imran says
I tried this but it shows both original published date and last updated date.
I want to show
if the post is update- show updated date
if not
just show original date.
How to do this.
WPBeginner Support says
For what you’re wanting you would want to add an else statement that had your theme’s original option to display the date using the method to edit your theme template from this article. An example of what you would add is the code below:
else {
// Theme's code
}
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Adam Baney says
The code to insert into a theme file worked perfectly! I added it as a function in my functions.php file, and called it on the page. The allows me to update the code in 1 place, and it will update across my site, in case I want to show the last modified date for multiple post types or in custom templates. Thank you!
WPBeginner Support says
Glad our guide was helpful!
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MOHAMMED AQRABI says
I have a question, for example, if I now display the date of the last update of the article and I have 800 articles and all the dates have changed for all articles at once, will this affect or harm the search engines
WPBeginner Support says
It should not cause an issue, you would mainly need to give time for Google to recrawl your updated dates.
Administratör
Raphael says
Thank you so much for this tutorial!
I used the first method and it perfectly works for me but I am having one issue, the post is still showing the published date on google search instead of the latest update date.
How can I do away with this?
WPBeginner Support says
It would depend on how recently it has changed, if you just added the updated date you would need to wait for Google to recrawl your post.
Administratör
Masrafi says
Hello, this was a very helpful blog and video. But when I apply, it shows the end of the content. please tell me the solution
WPBeginner Support says
You may need to check with the support for your specific theme to check the placement of your code in case your theme has a different method for displaying the publish date.
Administratör
Dean says
s there a way to hide this on pages and only show on blog posts ? tx
WPBeginner Support says
You would want to use the second method in this article for that
Administratör
Gianluigi Filippelli says
if ( get_post_type() ’page’ ){
return $custom_content;
} else {
return $content;
}
Laura says
Just a quick question, the updated date shows at the bottom of my posts, as opposed to the top.
Is there a solution to ensure the new updated date is at the beginning of the posts?
WPBeginner Support says
It would depend on how your theme is designed. If you reach out to your theme’s support they should be able to help you place it in the correct location
Administratör
Raman says
Hi Team,
I am able to print updated date but it’s getting rendered below the featured image, can you advise how can print the udpated date on the top of the featured image, means right below the title.
WPBeginner Support says
You would want to reach out to the support for your specific theme and they should be able to assist with that placement.
Administratör
Sanaullah Farooq says
Hello,
I want to show only post update date on page and in search results instead of publish date. How can I achieve that? I have tried everything.
WPBeginner Support says
If you are unable to remove the published date then we would recommend reaching out to your specific theme’s support and they would be able to help you remove that.
Administratör
Rachel Joan says
OMG…
Thank you for saving my hours…
Thank you for this code.
You are the problem solver.
WPBeginner Support says
Glad our guide was helpful
Administratör
Danyl says
Hi how about list of users who updated the post?
WPBeginner Support says
You would want to take a look at your post revisions for that information
Administratör
ali karimi says
thanks a lot for your help
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome
Administratör
Ankit Sheoran says
Last update is not showing in google what should i do but showing in my website
WPBeginner Support says
If the change is recent, you would need to wait for Google’s cache to clear. Otherwise, you would want to check with your theme’s support to ensure they are not setting the specific publish date elsewhere
Administratör
Shubham Davey says
What if I want to show only the updated date & not the published date? The method shown here displays both published & updated date, I don’t want that, just updated date, that’s it.
WPBeginner Support says
It would depend on your theme but you would use method 2 to replace the display of the last edited date. The location of that code varies from theme to theme.
Administratör
Charles says
Hello I applied the code but it keeps popping out error
WPBeginner Support says
It would depend on the specific error but for the most common reasons you would want to take a look at our article here:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-pasting-snippets-from-the-web-into-wordpress/
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John says
The PHP code worked great, but how do I limit it to post pages only. Once I added the code to functions.php it displayed last updated on both pages and posts. What do I need to add to limit it to just posts?
Thanks,
John
WPBeginner Support says
To limit it to posts you would use an if statement after the function:
function wpb_last_updated_date( $content ) {
if ( is_single() ) {
and add a closing
}above the add_filter lineAdministratör
John says
Thank you for the quick response!
I tried the code, but it prevents my blog pages from rendering. However, my blog post pages continue to work and display last updated date.
Do you have any idea why that is?
WPBeginner Support says
You may want to reach out to your theme’s support, this code shouldn’t prevent the rendering of content unless something theme-specific is conflicting with it.
Romeo says
Still worked in September 2019 for one of my sites. For my Genesis based site, I needed to use the Genesis Simple Edits plugin to easily modify the post info since they put the post info in an array, instead of in a function.
WPBeginner Support says
Thanks for sharing what worked for you
Administratör
sarkariyojanainfo says
Thank you for this post, I tried it and its working Fine..
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome, glad our article could be helpful
Administratör
Kirsty says
Hi there,
I’m having the opposite problem – I have a new website and have backdated my posts to the date that they were originally created, but my site is showing the dates that they were last updated.
Any advice on how to fix this, or if there is a link to another tutorial for that somewhere would be greatly appreciated, I can’t find one!
Thanks.
WPBeginner Support says
By default, WordPress should work like this, you may want to reach out to the support for the specific theme you’re using to see if they have a setting for this.
Administratör
Giacomo says
Hi, will it impact SEO if I show both the posted, and the updated date?
Thanks!
WPBeginner Support says
Unless I hear otherwise, we haven’t tested the SEO impact of having both displaying at the same time but your post’s metadata should let search engines know which date to look at.
Administratör
Noz says
Thanks.. is there a way to show the Last modified field Only After certain time from date of post?
i.e if the next day you edited a post for some reason, doesn’t have to show as modified..
WPBeginner Support says
Not at the moment but we can certainly look into an option to do that.
Administratör
Bill Hogsett says
i have a page that lists books that I have read and I update the page when I start a new book.
On the sit’s homepage I have a menu link to the book list. I would like to have button, or maybe just text, next to the homepage link showing the last time the book list page has been updated.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
WPBeginner Support says
You could either add a text widget or edit the menu item’s title manually when you update the page.
Administratör
Herbert says
I am using Method 1 since Method 2 doesnt seem to work on my theme. Is there a way to have the text be displayed n the bottom of the post? Your response would mean a lot. Thank you
WPBeginner Support says
For relocating the publish date you would want to reach out to the support for the theme you are currently using for how to do that with your theme.
Administratör
Pete says
This is great. Quick question, I can’t seem to get it to only show on post and not pages? I tried to add method 2 to the single post template, but that didnt seem to work. It doesnt contain a bit about date or time. Even though the date is displayed in header.
Should i be adding more to show date and time in the single post template?
WPBeginner Support says
Your specific theme may be pulling that information from another file. If you reach out to your specific theme’s support they should be able to assist.
Administratör
Tudor says
Hi, how to make last updated date show only on specific pages?
Alexander says
Hi, thanks so much for this guidance freely given.
Suppose I do not want to show the published date but only the last updated date? How can I modify the code to achieve that, please?
Thanks
Alexander
WPBeginner Support says
You would need to modify your theme’s templates, as each theme is different you would need to check with your theme’s support for where the published date is located
Administratör
Melanie says
Hi,
I found your information helpful. But perhaps you can answer two more questions:
When is it best to completely update a post aka republish it versus just provide the ”last updated” information? Sometimes republishing something feels like cheating – it’s a lazy way to update my blog.
I’ve also read that having two dates on a post can confuse Google when it is crawling your site. Of course, I would like for them to pick up the latest date so it shows next to the description in the search results. Is there a way to show one or the other?
Right now, I have removed the entry date on posts while employing the ”last updated” date (using css for both). Problem is that if I haven’t updated something, then it shows no date which is also a no-no according to the post above.
A LOT to address here, I know! But if you would be so kind to consider a reply, I would appreciate it.
Thanks!
WPBeginner Support says
Hi Melanie,
It is best to simply update a post if changes are minor. However, if a post is completely outdated and a rewrite contains all new information, then you can publish it as a new article and redirect your old article.
Administratör
Dat Nguyen says
Thank you.
It so helpful.
I need it.
Christie says
How do you keep the ”last updated” from appearing at the top of specific pages. I really only want it on blog posts, not my homepage, contact page, etc.? thanks.
Laura says
This code is excellent. Thanks so much. I’m following pretty much all of it, but I’m just curious what the 86400 number added to the updated time is doing.
Thanks in advance.
WPBeginner Support says
Hi Laura,
86400 is number of seconds in a day. The code checks if the modified time is larger than or equals to a day.
Administratör
Morsi says
Hello, can i use the first méthod and using the translation file to translate it into my language ?
Sunny Mui says
Thanks, this was helpful for implementing last updated text on my blog.
One point, the theme specific code is actually incorrect. You forgot the ”echo get_…” before the get_the_modified_time() function.
Right now it just says:
the_modified_time(’F jS, Y’);
echo ” at ”;
the_modified_time();
When it should say:
echo get_the_modified_time(’F jS, Y’);
echo ” at ”;
echo get_the_modified_time();
Jamie Brower says
Can you please tell me how to post the modified date AFTER the content. I tried using a in the footer.php but then it just displays before the content AND in the footer. I would just like the footer to display.
Daniele says
Thanks guys, it works like a charm! A so so cool tip!
If you want to add the last modified ONLY ON POSTS, that works for me (I’m Italian and I edited it not showing the hour and modified the date order):
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(’d F Y’);
$updated_time = get_the_modified_time(’H:i’);
$custom_content .= ’Articolo aggiornato il ’. $updated_date . ”;
}
if(is_single()){
$custom_content .= $content;
return $custom_content;
}
return $content;
}
add_filter( ’the_content’, ’wpb_last_updated_date’ );
David Aguirre says
Dude, this is gold, I don’t know why anyone has thanked you before.
Thank you
PET says
Yeah, good stuff! Thanks bro!
David says
I have applied above all settings on my website and its working fine.
But I have one question that when two dates shown above content then which date will be shown in google search engine result page? Please provide answer because I have done all this only for showing last update date in google search engine result page.
ahmed says
i like this it is very good and easy to install with genesis child theme function.php thank you
Vishal Mukherjee says
Hi,
Added the following code to functions.php
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 .= ’Last updated on ’. $updated_date . ’ at ’. $updated_time .”;
}
$custom_content .= $content;
return $custom_content;
}
add_filter( ’the_content’, ’wpb_last_updated_date’ );
Works fine for posts but … the same is displayed in Pages also.
I want it only for post. or if pages then at a different place eg End og the page article.
Best Wishes
Vishal Mukherjee
Victor Step says
Thank you for the code.
However, there is a common problem that Google pulls the date of the embedded youtube video instead of the updated blog post date. In your case, I see that the search results do in fact show the correct date, and not the embedded video’s upload date. How did you achieve this? Thank you.
RUWAN says
hello, I want only show updated date like your website, not both(updated and published date), when I add your code to site then its shows that both dates, please guide me to show only that updated date. thanks
Ludwig Sörmlind says
Thank you for this post, I tried it and it works like a charm. I went for the site-specific plugin-option.
Ebuka says
Thanks a lot it worked perfectly. but for the custom CSS only the ”text-transform” worked on my theme. Other CSS like; color, text-weight, background-color etc. did not work. Please is there any possible way around it?
peter says
hi syed ,am peter. the code work on my theme, but when i tried to add css style , i mean this code .last-updated {
font-size: small;
text-transform: uppercase;
background-color: #fffdd4;
}
my site goes blank. please what do i do to restore my website…
WPBeginner Support says
Hi Peter,
We are not sure what may cause this. Just to be on the safe side, please take a look at our guide on how to add custom CSS in WordPress.
Administratör
Steve W says
Thank you for this tip. I actually turned it into a shortcode so that it only shows up where I want it, and not on every page or post. [last_updated]
Velyz Zhang says
Hi,
Actually the code is work, but the result showing some numbers before ”last update”
1494555840LAST UPDATED ON JUL 9, 2017
Every single post that I updated showing different numbers like that. Any one can help me?
Thank you
mathhew says
Can you please explain how to apply it for genesis framework. i tried it but it didn’t worked
Adarsh Sahu says
Hey I just tried this method it worked fine for me but the problem is that now my post is not showing any date in google search please help me i also want to show last updated date in Google search when anyone searches my content.