• I read the WP documentation on the Post Modified Date block and it says there are 5 options on the toolbar, one of them being a “Change Date” option. However, the edit option is not there. The documentation on this is recent, dated August 2023.

    Has this been printed in error and Gutenberg does not have the ability to change the Modified Date?

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  • Disable “Display last modified date” on the right sidebar, than you will have the missed option in the toolbar.

    Thread Starter bigfatty

    (@bigfatty)

    Thank you for pointing that out. I see that when I toggle the “Display Last Modified Date” option off, the “Change Date” edit icon does appear. However, by turning the switch off, the “Modified Date” block converts to a “Date” block, and while it then allows me to change the date, it actually is changing the original publish date of the post, which I don’t want to do. I want to change the date to when the content was actually modified. Therefore, I don’t think this block helps me as it either shows nothing or the current date.

    Basically, I have many posts published prior to 2019, and while some have been updated in the past few years, none have been recently. I’m staging a new site and transferring them there. While I can easily implement the original publish date of each article, I wanted to avoid a large amount of articles all displaying as updated with today’s date when they haven’t been updated in years, which is what the “Modified Date” block displays. I can leave the option off, but the articles that have been updated will not reflect that. Therefore, from what I can see, the change date edit icon seems pointless, and the “Modified Date” block is not useful for my situation.

    I guess I’ll have to resort to a plugin of some sort. Thanks for your input, though.

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