How to show update date for PAGES

There’s a [post_modified] shortcode.

Yes, I know. That is exactly what I am using. My question was how to make that shortcode show updates for pages and not only posts.

Everything appears to be working on my end.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems the confusing is from the shortcode name “Post” Modified, when you are expecting [page_modified]. In WP, Pages and Posts both use the WP_Post object, and the only thing that really separates the two is the hierarchical setting.

So the shortcode will work for both Pages as it does for Posts. I had given it some thought at the time of development to toss the “post_”, but I ended up keeping it as a prefix index for the WP_Post Object to distinguish it from the other Objects (Ex. WP_Users).

If you are still unable to use the shortcode, then reply back letting me know because everything should be in working order. Otherwise, this could potentially be a bug you have.

A, then here it is:

I use this shortcode: [post_modified format=”d F Y”]. It should display the latest date at which a page or post was modified. However, it shows only the date for the last POST modified. Of any PAGE that was modified after any POST, the date is not shown.

I want to use this code to show the latest global mutation-date on the site; a page-edit or a new or edited post.

Thanks in advance for any effort you are putting into this. I love the plugin… ?? It’s very useful.

Sorry for the late reply. It seems as though I didn’t get a notification from WP.

So to clarify. You are trying to show the last date in general. Either new and modified (which ever comes last).

Off the top of my head, I don’t believe a concept of your idea was implemented. Most of APL tries to preserve most of the data as raw data. When adding the Post_Modified shortcode, I would of thought WordPress had the variable for the modified date to be a mixture of publish date as well; if no modified date is found.

Regardless, APL can still accomplish the results you are looking for, but will take a bit more work. You may have noticed the PHP Function Shortcode for making custom shortcodes. With that, it’s possible to check if there is a modified date in WP_Post objects, and if not, then you would display the published date.

It takes a bit of knowledge in PHP and creating a child theme to store the code in. Eventually I plan on publishing a database of different PHP Functions that could be used with APL, but lately I’ve had a lot to do.