How To Display Last Updated Date In Posts in Twenty Twelve or Fifteen

  • ebizdame

    (@ebizdame)


    9 years ago

    Hi, I am trying to create a last updated post date next to or instead of, the original date in WP. I want to do this on my demo blog which uses Twenty Twelve (or Twenty Fifteen). Online I found a suggestion, and many repeats of the same, which suggests to change a code in the single post, page and index php of the theme.

    The code which needs to be replaced is:
    <?php the_modified_time(‘F jS, Y’);?>

    Every article also said “or similar” when refering to the code that needs to be changed.

    For the life of me I cannot find this code and I am not sure what “or similar” would be.

    Can anyone help? PS I do not want to use a plugin.

    Thanks

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    in a child theme of Twenty Twelve, in functions.php, create an edited version of the ‘twentytwelve_entry_meta()’ function;

    example:

    function twentytwelve_entry_meta() {
	// Translators: used between list items, there is a space after the comma.
	$categories_list = get_the_category_list( __( ', ', 'twentytwelve' ) );

	// Translators: used between list items, there is a space after the comma.
	$tag_list = get_the_tag_list( '', __( ', ', 'twentytwelve' ) );

	$date = sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="%3$s">%4$s</time></a>',
		esc_url( get_permalink() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_modified_time() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_modofied_date( 'c' ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_modified_date() )
	);

	$author = sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="author">%3$s</a></span>',
		esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
		esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'twentytwelve' ), get_the_author() ) ),
		get_the_author()
	);

	// Translators: 1 is category, 2 is tag, 3 is the date and 4 is the author's name.
	if ( $tag_list ) {
		$utility_text = __( 'This entry was posted in %1$s and tagged %2$s and last updated on  %3$s<span class="by-author"> by %4$s</span>.', 'twentytwelve' );
	} elseif ( $categories_list ) {
		$utility_text = __( 'This entry was posted in %1$s and last updated on %3$s<span class="by-author"> by %4$s</span>.', 'twentytwelve' );
	} else {
		$utility_text = __( 'This entry was last updated on %3$s<span class="by-author"> by %4$s</span>.', 'twentytwelve' );
	}

	printf(
		$utility_text,
		$categories_list,
		$tag_list,
		$date,
		$author
	);
}
    Thread Starter ebizdame

    (@ebizdame)

    Hi Michael,

    thank you very much for your response. I am not very techie, and I think I will not create a child theme at this time.

    However, do you have an idea where to find the code which needs to be replaced ? The one below. I can’t find anything like this or even remotely resembling this on Twenty Twelve or Fifteen

    <?php the_modified_time(‘F jS, Y’);?> or similar as every article says to do.

    Once again, thanks

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