Ultimate Last Modified Plugin for WordPress with Gutenberg support. Use shortcodes to show last modified info on WP 4.7+ sites.
As of April 2026, WP Last Modified Info is a WordPress timestamp plugin with 40K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 830 reviews. It has been downloaded 682K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are up 10% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Cachebuster.
Most WordPress themes usually show the date when a post was last published. This is fine for most blogs and static websites. However, WordPress is also used by websites where old articles are regularly updated. This last updated date and time is important information for those publications. The most common example is news websites. They often update old stories to show new developments, add corrections, or media files. If they only added the published date, then their users would miss those updates.
Many popular blogs and websites don’t show any date on their articles. This is a bad practice and you should never remove dates from your blog posts.
So now it is possible to add last modified/updated info on your WordPress posts a…
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| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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Release Date: January 30, 2026
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