How do I place the date exactly where I want in my theme?

Set Automatic placement to Manual only on the Settings page, then add the following in your theme template where you want the label: See the Usage & Support tab on the settings page for full template tag documentation and examples.

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MSC: Post Last Updated Date

Name: MSC: Post Last Updated Date
Author: djm56

Show a "Last Updated" date on posts and pages. SEO-friendly time markup, custom labels and date formats, works with any theme. No JavaScript.

MSC ranks #44,092 among WordPress.org plugins with 10+ active installations, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Aug 28, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v1.6.2 Current Version v1.6.2

Updated 2 months ago Last Update on 28 Aug, 2026

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Version: 1.6.2
Last Updated: Aug 28, 2026
Requires WP: 5.9+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: djm56

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Common questions about MSC: Post Last Updated Date

Activate the plugin — that's it. By default a "Updated {date}" label appears below the content of any post or page that has been edited after publishing. Fine-tune the placement, label and date format under Settings → MSC Post Last Updated Date.

Go to Settings → MSC Post Last Updated Date and confirm Enable output is ticked. Make sure the relevant post type (e.g. Post or Page) is selected in the Post types list. If Only show when modified date differs from publish date is ticked (the default), the label only appears on posts that have been edited after their original publish date. If Automatic placement is set to Manual only, nothing is injected automatically — you need to add the template tag to your theme.

No. It is display-only: the label is added at render time via a content filter. Nothing is written to your posts, and your published and modified dates are untouched.

Set Automatic placement to Manual only on the Settings page, then add the following in your theme template where you want the label: <?php msclup_the_last_updated(); ?> See the Usage & Support tab on the settings page for full template tag documentation and examples.

Yes. Use [msclu_last_updated] anywhere shortcodes run (posts, pages, widgets). Optional attributes: post_id (defaults to the current post) and relative="true" / relative="false" to override the date style for that instance.

Yes. Set Date format source to Relative on the settings page. The visible label reads "Updated 3 days ago", while the machine-readable <time datetime> attribute stays an absolute ISO-8601 timestamp for SEO.

Yes. Use the Label template setting. The %s token is replaced with the formatted date. Examples: Updated %s outputs Updated March 28, 2026 Last checked: %s outputs Last checked: March 28, 2026 Omitting %s entirely shows the label text with no date appended.

Yes. Set Date format source to Custom and enter a PHP date format string in the Custom date format field. The Usage & Support tab includes a quick reference table and a link to the full WordPress date format documentation.

Yes — that is the default behaviour. The Only show when modified date differs from publish date setting suppresses the label on posts that have never been edited after publishing, so "Updated" always means something.

The plugin outputs a semantic HTML5 <time> element with a machine-readable ISO 8601 datetime attribute, which search engines can parse. It does not inject JSON-LD structured data — your SEO plugin's dateModified schema (which WordPress themes and SEO plugins generate from the same modified date) is complemented, not duplicated.

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