MSC: Post Last Updated Date

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.