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Change Last Modified Date

Change or prevent updating Last Modified date for individual posts.

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Tested up to WordPress 6.8
Current version1.4.8
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.8
Minimum stackWP 5.1 · PHP 5.6
Directory statusactive
Last directory update11 Sept 20251y ago
Active installations3K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.3 / 5 from 12 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Change Last Modified Date version 1.4.8 as active, updated 1y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.8.

Overview

About this plugin

Using this plugin you can easily change or prevent updating the last modified date for each post. Controlling the last modified date can come in handy when you would like to control “order by last modified” for posts (or custom post type).

When this plugin is active it will enable Last modified date options in Status & Visibility panel in sidebar. Changing the modified date can be done by clicking the date link and selecting a new date for the post. It’s also possible to disable future updates of the last modified date by setting the “Freeze modified date” option to on.

Custom post types support

To update the last modified date, plugin is using “rest_pre_insert_{$post_type}” hook which is executed before “init” where other custom post types are usually registered. This is the reason why plugin is not aware of any additional post types other than those registered by WordPress core. php:

define( 'CLM_DATE_POST_TYPES', ['post-type-slug-1', 'post-type-slug-2'] );

Custom post types are also required to have “custom-fields” support declared.

Support

For support or code contributions please refer to Github repo.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • change last modified
  • edit date
  • edit last modified
  • last modified
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.8

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.8.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.1 · PHP 5.6
Update activity11 Sept 20251y ago

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