Use Post Updated Date Plugin to display the Last Updated Date in WordPress Posts.
As of April 2026, Post Updated Date is a WordPress posts plugin with 500 active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 20K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
Easily highlight your post update date with the “Post Updated Date” plugin!!!
This plugin is a great tool for bloggers and content creators who updates their posts/contents frequently. It lets you automatically display the last updated date on each post, either above or below the content. With flexible styling options, you can easily customize the text, appearance, prefix, and position to fit your site’s look and feel.
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For example, if your post Published on April 28, 2025, and you found out two days later that there was an update to the post. You can just edit the post, and it will show “Last Updated on: April 30, 2025” either before or after the post content, based on your settings. Still there showing ori…
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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