Plugin info

Total downloads: 19,707
Active installs: 500
Total reviews: 11
Average rating: 3.7
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 4 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 5/1/2025 (244 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 6/10/2016 (9 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.5
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 244 days ago • 11 reviews

42/100

Is Post Updated Date abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 244 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.5
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: f

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Description

Easily highlight your post update date with the “Post Updated Date” plugin!!!

This plugin is a great tool for bloggers and content creators who updates their posts/contents frequently. It lets you automatically display the last updated date on each post, either above or below the content. With flexible styling options, you can easily customize the text, appearance, prefix, and position to fit your site’s look and feel.

Don’t forget to leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating if this plugin helps you!

For example, if your post Published on April 28, 2025, and you found out two days later that there was an update to the post. You can just edit the post, and it will show “Last Updated on: April 30, 2025” either before or after the post content, based on your settings. Still there showing original published date in post info. So you’re going to show both dates published and updated to the readers. And this will help you to notice your readers that blog is always updated.

Just simply install Post Updated Date plugin, set your preferences, and the plugin handles the rest.

🗝️ Key Features

  • Automatically show the last updated date on every post
  • Admin settings panel
  • Choose to display the date before or after post content
  • Fully customizable font size, color, style, and weight
  • Custom prefix text support
  • View changes instantly with a live preview panel

Blog

Support

Installation

  1. Upload the ‘post-updated-date’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. You’re done!

Frequently Asked Questions

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Review feed

Ataul Ghani
9/3/2016

"Post Updated Date"

It's really a nice plugin to show "Last Updated Date" in WordPress Posts.
Li-An
11/17/2016

Needs some polish

The plugin works but does not allow translation. And you cannot choose where to put the text (no shortcode, no function for template).
audioscavenger
4/3/2024

useless plugin

maybe a good idea, but most themes show the last modified date. This plugin broke my site today. just today, no idea why. to the trash.

Screenshots

  1. Settings panel

    Settings panel

  2. View of updated date before content

    View of updated date before content

  3. View of updated date after content

    View of updated date after content

Changelog

1.5

  • fixed minor bugs
  • Tested with WordPress 6.8.1

1.4

  • Added admin settings panel
  • Custom color, font size, weight, and style options
  • Position modified date before or after post
  • Custom prefix text support
  • Live preview included
  • Tested with WordPress 6.8

1.3

  • Tested with WordPress version 6.1

1.2

  • Functions upgrade for WordPress latest version.

1.0

  • First Release