• Resolved Wukung

    (@wukung)


    Hi!

    Is it possible to insert an automatic timestamp within an article after one has edit it again?

    Why? That article provides an running schedule. The content is ever present at a static page in the header. The untrained user should recognize AT ONCE when the content was edited the last time.

    Maybe a plugin can help?

    An idea would be fine.

    Thanks.

    Wukung
    https://cjd-update.info/

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  • Well this plugin is meant to track edits. But you may need to do some customization to your theme to ‘grab’ the last edit date from the records blicki creates.
    https://svn.wp-plugins.org/blicki/trunk/

    Thread Starter Wukung

    (@wukung)

    Thank you very much. I will check it. Maybe I am not skilled enough to customize my theme ??

    However – I should try.

    Well I jumped the gun with that plugin–it would be simpler to use the post_modified or post_modified_gmt fields from the wp_posts table.

    The blicki plugin would provide a history of all the edits to a post.

    Thread Starter Wukung

    (@wukung)

    Thanks a lot. I already applied the blicki plugin. It creates a bit havoc ??

    As for your 2nd idea – I need a tag to insert post_modified_gmt. Or how else one has to use that string?

    W

    Thread Starter Wukung

    (@wukung)

    It works perfectly for articles. Not yet for pages.

    On the other hand, nobody is touching the page physically. The content is but REDIRECTED from the article and displayed there. Consequently no UPDATE can be given out. In one sense the page is an empty one. May be that the reason why no update-entry appears there?

    Unfortunately the update-entry IN the article does not appear in the redirect version at the page as well ??

    May I trouble you further…?

    i use a plugin that shows the last edited date for pages and posts…

    That way I can see the created date and the time and date it was edited https://guff.szub.net/post-updated

    Thread Starter Wukung

    (@wukung)

    Thank you, very much. But the plugin works not in the (my) case, that the content of a page is created by redirection of the content of an article. One has to “touch” – that means to edit – PHYSICALLY either the page or the article. Otherwise WP thinks the page is an empty one. And diplays NO update-entry at all. Even when there ist a ever changing content.

    Obvioulsly I need a solution that allows to insert a tag into the article, like the more-tag or tags for inserting a mp3-player etc. Like a “troyan horse” the command would be trasmitted from the real edited articel to the but virtually filled page… and do its task.

    W.

    Thread Starter Wukung

    (@wukung)

    Late solution. The Plugin mentioned above works perferctly. One has just to insert the call for the commentary-template into the page. In my case it was not before. Thank you very much for help! W.

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