A widget to display the date of the last blog update.
As of April 2026, Lex's Last Update Widget is a WordPress update plugin with 40 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: MainWP Child – Securely Connects to the….
Although blog posts can display the date on which they were created, it is sometimes useless to display this information. At least, this can be a way to make index pages lighter. In this case though, it can be useful to display the date of the last blog update on the index. It allows the visitor to see the last update time at a glance.
This plugins provides a widget to display the date of the last blog update.
The widget has 4 options:
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 3.4.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Ignore sticky posts when searching the most recent post.
Tested with a more recent version of WordPress that originally.
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