Change Last Modified Date
Change or prevent updating Last Modified date for individual posts.
4.3(12 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 6 months agoAs of April 2026, Change Last Modified Date is a WordPress edit date plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 34K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.1+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Edit Registration Date.
4.3/512 reviews
3.0K+active installs
0%resolved
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
Using this plugin you can easily change or prevent updating the last modified date for each post. Controlling the last modified date can come in handy when you would like to control “order by last modified” for posts (or custom post type).
When this plugin is active it will enable Last modified date options in Status & Visibility panel in sidebar. Changing the modified date can be done by clicking the date link and selecting a new date for the post. It’s also possible to disable future updates of the last modified date by setting the “Freeze modified date” option to on.
Custom post types support
To update the last modified date, plugin is using “rest_pre_insert_{$post_type}” hook which is executed before “init” where other custom p…
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Recent Reviews
Would be great if work with classic editor
by anonichan·1 year ago
I mean I can switch to block editor to use it, but then the post type has to be REST API available that’s not ideal. For now it works if I rollback to version 1.2.
Amazing plugin for feature that should’ve been native
by karlemilnikka·1 year ago
The ability to control the last-modified date should be a native feature of WordPress. This plugin adds the missing functionality, exactly that, and more than that. What more could I ask for? 🙂
Works good so far
by Laura·2 years ago
I was looking for something to change the modified date or “freeze” it completely when I made only minor changes.
This plugin ticks all boxes and works great so far. The “freeze” option works well but I have to test a bit more.
So far I’m happy.
It seems to still work on current WP ver. 6.1.1
by hero2·3 years ago
I use the current WordPress version 6.1.1 with the Astra Pro theme (and Spectra). I could change the Last Updated Date on all my Posts using this plugin.
You just have to be aware that if you change something else in a post, then the date will be updated to the current point in time, and you have to change it back, unless you use the “Freeze modified date” option.
Currently does not work with classic editor
by nimmolo·4 years ago
Would love to use this plugin, but it doesn’t work with the “classic editor” anymore. The author suggests using an earlier release, but I went back to version 1.3 and 1.2, and neither of them worked for me either.
I code and manage a lot of commercial websites, and none of them uses Gutenberg, it’s too easy for clients to mess up sites with it.
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.1+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.4
98.7%
v1.2
1.3%
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Changelog
1.0
- Initial release.
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