Plugin Author
EkoJR
(@ekojr)
There’s a [post_modified] shortcode.
Thread Starter
Carlo
(@ccozzi)
Yes, I know. That is exactly what I am using. My question was how to make that shortcode show updates for pages and not only posts.
Plugin Author
EkoJR
(@ekojr)
Everything appears to be working on my end.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems the confusing is from the shortcode name “Post” Modified, when you are expecting [page_modified]. In WP, Pages and Posts both use the WP_Post object, and the only thing that really separates the two is the hierarchical setting.
So the shortcode will work for both Pages as it does for Posts. I had given it some thought at the time of development to toss the “post_”, but I ended up keeping it as a prefix index for the WP_Post Object to distinguish it from the other Objects (Ex. WP_Users).
Plugin Author
EkoJR
(@ekojr)
If you are still unable to use the shortcode, then reply back letting me know because everything should be in working order. Otherwise, this could potentially be a bug you have.
Thread Starter
Carlo
(@ccozzi)
A, then here it is:
I use this shortcode: [post_modified format=”d F Y”]. It should display the latest date at which a page or post was modified. However, it shows only the date for the last POST modified. Of any PAGE that was modified after any POST, the date is not shown.
I want to use this code to show the latest global mutation-date on the site; a page-edit or a new or edited post.
Thanks in advance for any effort you are putting into this. I love the plugin… 🙂 It’s very useful.
Plugin Author
EkoJR
(@ekojr)
Sorry for the late reply. It seems as though I didn’t get a notification from WP.
So to clarify. You are trying to show the last date in general. Either new and modified (which ever comes last).
Off the top of my head, I don’t believe a concept of your idea was implemented. Most of APL tries to preserve most of the data as raw data. When adding the Post_Modified shortcode, I would of thought WordPress had the variable for the modified date to be a mixture of publish date as well; if no modified date is found.
Regardless, APL can still accomplish the results you are looking for, but will take a bit more work. You may have noticed the PHP Function Shortcode for making custom shortcodes. With that, it’s possible to check if there is a modified date in WP_Post objects, and if not, then you would display the published date.
It takes a bit of knowledge in PHP and creating a child theme to store the code in. Eventually I plan on publishing a database of different PHP Functions that could be used with APL, but lately I’ve had a lot to do.
