Bill Erickson

Warning This plugin is no longer supported, and does not always work with the Gutenberg block editor.
I recommend using <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/change-last-modified-date/" rel="ugc">Change Last Modified Date</a> instead.
<h4>Summary</h4>
Prevent the modified date from changing when making minor changes to your content.
This plugin adds a checkbox to the Publish box, “Don’t update the modified date”. When checked, saving your post does not update the post modified date.
Minor changes like adding tags or fixing typos won’t bump the modified date.
This plugin will maintain the previous modified date. It does not let you specify a custom modified date.
When you’re ready to publish a major content change, you can uncheck this setting before saving the post.
<h4>Customization</h4>
Your theme will need to use <code>get_the_modified_date()</code> to display the modified date.
This plugin only applies to the <code>post</code> post type by default. You can customize which post types it appears on using the <code>limit_modified_date_post_types</code> filter.
<pre><code>add_filter( 'limit_modified_date_post_types', function( $post_types ) {
 $post_types[] = 'page';
 return $post_types;
});
</code></pre>

Limit Modified Date

Prevent the "modified date" from changing when making minor changes to your content.

Andrew Nacin

shacker

rboren

xjlin0

A WordPress plugin aimed primarily at events sites, where you want to be able to timestamp posts in the future but have them appear immediately (by default, WordPress will not display a future timestamped post until its go-live date rolls around). Without changing database, this plugin sets the post_status field to “publish” rather than “future” when publishing a post, even if its timestamp is in the future.
Note: This 2.0 version requires WordPress 3.5 or higher. If you need this to work with versions lower than 3.5, grab the 1.0 version from svn: https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/the-future-is-now/tags/1.0/
<h3>Note</h3>
This seemingly simple plugin was graciously written by the magical Ryan Boren when I was facing a deadline. He doesn’t have time to maintain/host it, so I agreed to. Andrew Nacin tweaked it to work with WP 3.5, when the APIs changed a bit. Jack updated the plugin for WordPress 6.8.

The Future Is Now

Allow future-time-stamped posts to appear live on your site immediately.

Limit Modified Date vs The Future Is Now