Title: Post Updated Date Author: Ataul Ghani Published: June 10, 2016 Last modified: May 1, 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/post-updated-date/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3285725) ![](https://ps.w.org/post-updated-date/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=3285725) # Post Updated Date By [Ataul Ghani](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mag_oberon/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/post-updated-date.zip) * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/post-updated-date/#description) * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/post-updated-date/#reviews) * [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/post-updated-date/#installation) * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/post-updated-date/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-updated-date/) ## 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](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-updated-date/reviews/?rate=5#new-post) > 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 * If you want to know more [Visit blog](https://www.usefulblogging.com/add-last-updated-date-wordpress-blog-posts/). ### Support * Need any help? Get community support via the [support forums](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-updated-date/). ## Screenshots * [[ * Settings panel * [[ * View of updated date before content * [[ * View of updated date after content ## 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! ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b1272f29090ab3d1cc1f9d6a3503352543bb2005134b7537aec033fec676f06c? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Causes There has been a Critical error on this web site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causes-there-has-been-a-critical-error-on-this-web-site/)󠁿 [henryjdaniels](https://profiles.wordpress.org/henryjdaniels/) September 23, 2024 I had this on my site for a while and then my traffic dropped off and I discovered this plugin caused the error “There has been a Critical error on this web site” and took all my posts offline ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/81d6cd29d711b1b8f768e3f31b7493de331a70168494303d83b73c2dbeca125c? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[useless plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/useless-plugin-114/)󠁿 [audioscavenger](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audioscavenger/) April 3, 2024 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. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/97760bfb88d9764278a9daf196a245decdc230189b13d99dd49f8e575955190d? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Does not show last modified date – instead appears to show published date.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-show-last-modified-date-instead-appears-to-show-published-date/)󠁿 [ericscoles](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ericscoles/) February 26, 2023 Shows the published date (not the modified date, as the name would imply). Since this capability is already provided, the plugin only adds the ability to sort the column. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/781380d6bf8eae686eb472aace7613be4f5279967b2ebcf63b337a3aa0ecde1d? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Excellent plugin. Every blogger should get it!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-plugin-every-blogger-should-get-it/)󠁿 [ilovetolivewell](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ilovetolivewell/) November 17, 2022 1 reply If you’re searching for a free, “done-for-you”, “ready-to-use”, Wordpress plugin to automatically display the “Last Updated On” date within each one of your posts, look NO further. This is the perfect plugin for YOU! And, the setup is too simple. Plus, you need NO knowledge of code. At my humble request, Ataul made it so that even my “Categories” section (a list of post titles and excerpts) would also show the “Last Updated On” date as I update posts. So, now each posts (in each of my categories) reads – published date and last updated date. You can check out the fantastic work that he did for me on my website – iLoveToLiveWell.com. He gets a 5-star for his wonderful plugin, a 5-star for his responsiveness, a 5-star for his willingness to help and a 5-star for his great customer service. Ataul has over 1,000 active users, and I’m now thrilled to say that I’m one of them! The only thing that I have left to say – Get this plugin. You’ll be so happy you did! Oh, and another thing I really like is that he uses the words “Last Updated On” instead of “Last Modified On”. Thanks Ataul. Keep up the terrific work! BTW, I don’t personally know Ataul – I’m just loving his helpful plugin. Blessings, Dianne Wawrzyniak-Marshall ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7e690fb8089aa2feee4b0d5a4d2742305ee83bfb1d700cd2db3bbdfa5048bae0? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great help with translating the plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-help-with-translating-the-plugin/)󠁿 [jacquibolt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jacquibolt/) June 15, 2021 1 reply The plugin does what it’s supposed to do and the creator Ataul helped me with the translation of the plugin. Ataul responds very quick if you need some help! If you wanna see what the (translated) plugin looks like, you can see my posts at darmrevolutie. nl ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7be82c38b0bae87f6fec1f73b52ee1e1c93627db32d028331d389e4e20a4e7dc? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[News site likes Post Updated Date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/news-site-likes-post-updated-date/)󠁿 [roncioffi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/roncioffi/) March 11, 2018 I’ve gone many years hoping to find a plugin to display date on our news stories on wwwTennisReporters.net. Post Updated Date allows us to do that! Great plugin! [ Read all 11 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-updated-date/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Post Updated Date” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Ataul Ghani ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mag_oberon/) “Post Updated Date” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/post-updated-date/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Post Updated Date” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/post-updated-date) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-updated-date/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/post-updated-date/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/post-updated-date/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/post-updated-date/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## 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 ## Meta * Version **1.5** * Last updated **11 months ago** * Active installations **500+** * WordPress version ** 5.5 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.8.5** * Languages * [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/post-updated-date/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-updated-date/), [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/post-updated-date/), and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/post-updated-date/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/post-updated-date) * Tags * [last-modified](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/last-modified/)[last-updated](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/last-updated/) [modified time](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/modified-time/)[post modified](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post-modified/) [posts](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/) * [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/post-updated-date/advanced/) ## Ratings 3.7 out of 5 stars. * [ 7 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-updated-date/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-updated-date/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 1 3-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-updated-date/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-updated-date/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 3 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-updated-date/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-updated-date/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-updated-date/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Ataul Ghani ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mag_oberon/) ## Support Got something to say? 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