Post Updated Date

If you want to only show the modified date in the source if it's set, you can scrap that CSS and use this PHP:

add_filter( 'generate_post_date_output', 'tu_show_modified_date' );
function tu_show_modified_date() {
	$time_string = '<time class="entry-date published" datetime="%1$s" itemprop="datePublished">%2$s</time>';
	
	if ( get_the_time( 'U' ) !== get_the_modified_time( 'U' ) ) {
		$time_string = '<time class="updated" datetime="%3$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">%1$s</span>', // WPCS: XSS ok, sanitization ok.
		sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark">%3$s</a>',
			esc_url( get_permalink() ),
			esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
			$time_string
		)
	);
}

Let me know :)

Hello Tom,

It's not working as expected.

I removed those CSS and added what you mentioned in functions.php file of the child theme.

I still don't see last updated time on the blog post. Ex - https://geekflare.com/google-cloud-latency/ this still shows June but post was updated in November.

Source code still has both times.

<meta property="article:published_time" content="2017-06-15T22:04:32+08:00" />
<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2017-11-12T14:40:47+08:00" />

Please help. As mentioned earlier, I want to show only last updated time on a blog post and source code. However, if post is not updated then show the original published time.

I just adjusted the code a bit to test if it's working at all - can you update it and let me know?

It has no affect at all. Still, the same as you can see here - https://geekflare.com/google-cloud-latency/

I think I see the issue - I just adjusted the code above.

I have been trying to get this updated dates to work on test site.

I have 2 snippets in place and the CSS you recommended from another post and the meta remains on 2 lines.

http://nxts847332.nextsearch.io/blog/

CSS - https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/all-meta-in-one-single-line/#post-108079

Hi there,

Instead of:

.posted-on .updated {
    display: block;
}

Try this:

.posted-on .updated {
    display: inline-block;
}

If this doesn't help can you open a new topic?

Thanks!

That worked, Thank you!

I did notice that the date that shows in WP Show posts and the rest of the site seems different. I will send an email into the support on that plugin since I have a pro version of that also.

No problem!