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WP PlugIndex currently records MSC: Post Last Updated Date version 1.6.2 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
Display the last updated date on your WordPress posts, pages and custom post types — automatically, no theme editing required.
Readers and search engines both favour fresh content. MSC: Post Last Updated Date shows exactly when a post was last modified, with a customisable label, your choice of date format, and clean HTML5 <time> markup with an ISO 8601 timestamp.
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 %s to 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 show the label only when a post has actually been edited after publishing (on by default).
Target specific post types, or exclude selected post types from an all-types baseline — works with any public custom post type.
Clean HTML5 <time> element output with an ISO 8601 datetime attribute for SEO and screen readers.
Optional relative dates (“3 days ago”) and a [msclu_last_updated] shortcode to place the date anywhere.
Lightweight: no JavaScript, no external services, a single option row — zero tracking, GDPR-friendly.
Translated into 20 languages (German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Polish, Indonesian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Arabic).
Developer-friendly: four filter hooks to customise visibility, label, CSS classes, and final HTML output.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
content freshness
datemodified schema
last modified date
last updated date
show modified date
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.9 · PHP 7.4
Update activity28 Aug 20262mo ago
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