Description
Micro Site Care: Post Last Updated Date adds a last-updated date label to your posts and pages. It is lightweight, uses no JavaScript, and integrates cleanly with any theme.
Key features:
- Show the last-updated date automatically before content, after content, or in both positions.
- Set placement to Manual and use the template tag in your theme for full control over where the label appears.
- Customise the label text with a flexible template — use
%sto insert the date, or omit it to show a static label. - Choose between the WordPress site date format or a custom PHP date format string.
- Optionally suppress the label when the modified date matches the publish date (suppress unchanged posts).
- Target specific post types, or exclude selected post types from an all-types baseline.
- Clean HTML5
<time>element output with an ISO 8601datetimeattribute for SEO and screen readers. - Developer-friendly: four filter hooks to customise visibility, label, CSS classes, and final HTML output.
- Compatible with MSC Post Last Updated Date Pro for relative dates, style presets, per-post overrides, and shortcodes.
Captures d’écrans
Settings tab — two-column layout with placement, label, date format, and post type options.
Installation
- Upload the
micro-site-care-post-last-updated-datefolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory, or install directly from the WordPress plugin screen. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen in WordPress.
- Go to Settings MSC Post Last Updated Date to configure the plugin.
FAQ
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The label is not appearing on my posts. What should I check?
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- Go to Settings MSC Post Last Updated Date and confirm Enable output is ticked.
- Make sure the relevant post type (e.g. Post or Page) is selected in the Post types list.
- If Only show when modified date differs from publish date is ticked, the label will only appear on posts that have been edited after their original publish date.
- If Automatic placement is set to Manual only, nothing is injected automatically — you need to add the template tag to your theme.
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How do I place the label at a specific spot in my theme?
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Set Automatic placement to Manual only on the Settings page, then add the following in your theme template where you want the label:
<?php msclup_the_last_updated(); ?>See the Usage & Support tab on the settings page for full template tag documentation and examples.
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Can I change the label text?
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Yes. Use the Label template setting. The
%stoken is replaced with the formatted date. Examples:Updated %soutputsUpdated March 28, 2026Last checked: %soutputsLast checked: March 28, 2026- Omitting
%sentirely shows the label text with no date appended.
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What HTML does the plugin output?
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Updated March 28, 2026
Style the
.msclu-last-updatedclass in your theme stylesheet. -
Can I use a custom date format?
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Yes. Set Date format source to Custom and enter a PHP date format string in the Custom date format field. The Usage & Support tab includes a quick reference table and a link to the full WordPress date format documentation.
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Does it work with custom post types?
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Yes. All registered public post types appear in the Post types list on the settings page.
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Is there a Pro version?
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Yes. MSC Post Last Updated Date Pro adds relative dates (« 3 days ago »), a hybrid mode (relative then absolute after a configurable threshold), style presets (muted, pill, badge), per-post show/hide overrides via a metabox, and a shortcode with per-instance attribute overrides.
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Journal des modifications
1.4.0
- Adds complete translations for 10 additional locales (de_CH, de_DE, es_ES, es_MX, fr_CA, fr_FR, it_IT, ja, nl_BE, nl_NL). Regenerates .pot source template with correct file references. Populates readme.txt translations for all 12 locales.
1.3.0
- Adds Brazilian and European Portuguese translations. No functional changes.
1.2.0
- Fixed: Admin settings page redirect URL pointed to
admin.phpinstead ofoptions-general.php; success notice now appears correctly after saving. - Fixed: Label template without
%swas silently replaced with the defaultUpdated %s; it now renders as-is. - Added: Dedicated Usage & Support documentation tab with template tag reference, label examples, date format quick-reference, FAQ, and support link.
- Added: Upgrade to Pro and Support sidebar panels on the Settings tab.
- Removed: Debug
error_log()calls from all Free plugin files. - Removed: Unnecessary
wp_cache_delete()calls.
1.0.0
- Initial public release.
- Automatic content injection with before, after, both, and manual placement modes.
- Configurable label template with
%sdate placeholder. - Site or custom date format source.
- Visibility condition: suppress label when modified date matches publish date.
- Include or exclude post type targeting mode.
- PHP template tags:
msclup_the_last_updated()andmsclup_get_last_updated(). - HTML5
<time>element output with ISO 8601datetimeattribute. - Developer filter hooks:
msclu_should_display,msclu_label_text,msclu_wrapper_classes,msclu_output_html. - Two-tab admin settings page with Usage & Support documentation tab.