How to display the date of the latest post updated on : …. ?

Hi,

You can access the database directly and find the “newest” post or page updated.

<?php $newest = $wpdb->get_row("select post_modified from $wpdb->posts
where post_type in ('page', 'post') and post_status = 'publish' order by post_modified desc");
 echo mysql2date('m/d/Y',$newest->post_modified);
 ?>

Inside the loop you can use the_modified_date():

<?php the_modified_date( 'F j, Y', 'last updated: '); ?>

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/the_modified_date

I seem to have asked wrong question. My apologies. What I would actually like to have is to display the date of the last published post and I will need to paste in the header somewhere. Thank You.

for the last modified date (of any modified post);
something like:

<strong>LAST UPDATED</strong>: <?php
$last_updated = get_posts('posts_per_page=1&orderby=modified');
foreach( $last_updated as $post ) { setup_postdata($post); the_modified_date(); }
wp_reset_postdata();
?>

for the last published date;
something like:

<strong>LAST UPDATED</strong>: <?php
$last_updated = get_posts('posts_per_page=1&orderby=date&order=DESC');
foreach( $last_updated as $post ) { setup_postdata($post); the_date(); }
wp_reset_postdata();
?>

Works like charm. Thanks a million !

Guess i need to mark this as resolved. Thanks everybody.