Post meta with last updated date

Hi there,

Try this instead:

add_filter( 'generate_post_author', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'generate_show_comments', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'generate_post_date_output', 'tu_fancy_byline' );
function tu_fancy_byline( $date ) {
	printf( ' <span class="byline">%1$s</span>',
		sprintf( '<span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">%4$s<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="author"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">%3$s</span></a></span>',
			esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
			esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'generatepress' ), get_the_author() ) ),
			esc_html( get_the_author() ),
			get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) )
		)
	);

	if ( ! is_single() && ! post_password_required() && ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) ) {
		echo '<span class="comments-link">';
			comments_popup_link( __( 'Leave a comment', 'generatepress' ), __( '1 Comment', 'generatepress' ), __( '% Comments', 'generatepress' ) );
		echo '</span>';
	}

	$time_string = '<time class="entry-date published" datetime="%1$s" itemprop="datePublished">%2$s</time>';
	
	if ( get_the_time( 'U' ) !== get_the_modified_time( 'U' ) ) {
		$time_string = '<time class="updated-date" datetime="%3$s" itemprop="dateModified">%4$s</time>';
	}
	
	$time_string = sprintf( $time_string,
		esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_date() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_modified_date( 'c' ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_modified_date() )
	);

	printf( '<span class="posted-on">%s</span>', // WPCS: XSS ok, sanitization ok.
		$time_string
	);
}

Let me know :)

Hi Tom,

I added a new testing line of text to my post and updated the post (after inserting your suggested code) but the date is still missing like the final image I uploaded on google drive above.

I added your code to my site-specific plug-in, i.e.

/public_html/wp-content/plugins/imjexa-plugin

thanks,

Any chance you can link me to the post? I'm not able to get through the password protected page right now.

Hi Tom,

I'm sending the login details and post via your account issue form.

David is having the same problem logging in and asked me to use that form, see below:
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/unique-header-for-a-specific-part-of-site/page/2/#post-1242320

The ‘Your website URL’ that only admins can see adds extra characters which makes it confusing for you to see the actual U/P.

Pls check form submission for me.

thanks,

Can you try the updated code?: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/post-meta-with-last-updated-date/#post-1240464

Let me know :)

Thanks Tom it works,

How can I refine this so that for a newly published post it displays as:

Matthew Jones | 2 comments | Published on April 20, 2020

and for any updated post it is:

Matthew Jones | 2 comments | Last updated on April 20, 2020

Currently I have:

Matthew Jones | 2 comments | April 20, 2020

thanks,

note: the comments part is only shown on the archive page which is OK, it's not on the single posts page which is how I want it.

Hi there,

for the Published and Last Updated dates - you will need to edit the two lines beginning with $time_string

Published date should read like so:

$time_string = '<time class="entry-date published" datetime="%1$s" itemprop="datePublished">Published on %2$s</time>';

and this for the Updated:

$time_string = '<time class="updated-date" datetime="%3$s" itemprop="dateModified">Last Updated on %4$s</time>';

I just published a new test post and on the single post it is displaying as:

Matthew Jones | Last updated on April 21, 2020

and on the archive:

Matthew Jones | 2 comments | Last updated on April 21, 2020

I put my login earlier, is it possible to test this on your end to check it's OK first?

thanks,

Can you try this instead:

add_filter( 'generate_post_author', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'generate_show_comments', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'generate_post_date_output', 'tu_fancy_byline' );
function tu_fancy_byline( $date ) {
	printf( ' <span class="byline">%1$s</span>',
		sprintf( '<span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">%4$s<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="author"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">%3$s</span></a></span>',
			esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
			esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'generatepress' ), get_the_author() ) ),
			esc_html( get_the_author() ),
			get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) )
		)
	);

	if ( ! is_single() && ! post_password_required() && ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) ) {
		echo '<span class="comments-link">';
			comments_popup_link( __( 'Leave a comment', 'generatepress' ), __( '1 Comment', 'generatepress' ), __( '% Comments', 'generatepress' ) );
		echo '</span>';
	}

    $time_string = '<time class="entry-date published" datetime="%1$s" itemprop="datePublished">Published on %2$s</time>';
    
    $updated_time = get_the_modified_time( 'U' );
    $published_time = get_the_time( 'U' ) + 86400;
	
	if ( $updated_time > $published_time ) {
		$time_string = '<time class="updated-date" datetime="%3$s" itemprop="dateModified">Last Updated on %4$s</time>';
	}
	
	$time_string = sprintf( $time_string,
		esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_date() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_modified_date( 'c' ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_modified_date() )
	);

	printf( '<span class="posted-on">%s</span>', // WPCS: XSS ok, sanitization ok.
		$time_string
	);
}

Na doesn't work as expected, just comes back to:

Matthew Jones | April 21, 2020

and on the archive:

Matthew Jones | 2 comments | April 21, 2020

Don't worry about this for now, I'm going to try another approach, and re-post.

thanks,

I updated the code here as i forgot to add in the labels.

Give that a go and let us know.