Freshtag – Last Modified Info & Timestamp, Detect Old Content, Boost SEO
Freshtag lets you manually set and display a custom “Last Modified” date for any post, page, or product. Instead of always showing the original publish date, you can highlight recent updates — keeping your content looking fresh and relevant. ✅ Key Features: Custom meta box in the post/page/product editor to manually set a “Last Modified” date Automatically display the last modified date at the top or bottom of posts/pages Hide the default WordPress “Published On” date Shortcode [freshtag] to place the date anywhere in your content Works with posts, pages, and WooCommerce products Simple setup — no coding required This is especially useful for blogs, news sites, and e-commerce stores where keeping content fresh builds SEO trust and user confidence. How To Use Option A — Auto-insert (no code) In your WordPress dashboard, go to Settings → FreshTag. Under Display Position, choose Above the post or Below the post. Click Save and refresh your site. You’ll see “Last updated: …” at the location you selected. Option B — Manual placement Shortcode (Classic or Block Editor): [freshtag] How it works: FreshTag reads the post’s Last Modified time (WordPress post_modified). Update your post (or adjust the Last Modified meta on the edit screen, if enabled) and the frontend will show the new “Last updated” time automatically. Freshtag Pro (Coming Soon) FreshTag Pro turns FreshTag into a full freshness monitoring system. Planned Pro features: Outdated content monitoring for posts, pages and custom post Email alerts when content becomes outdated Auto‑update post dates (modified or publish) Drip updates to spread refreshes over multiple days Updated content history and logs
Top keywords
- post9×3.40%
- freshtag8×3.02%
- last7×2.64%
- modified7×2.64%
- content6×2.26%
- date6×2.26%
- last modified5×1.89%
- custom3×1.13%
- display3×1.13%
- last modified date3×1.13%
- modified date3×1.13%
- pages3×1.13%
Stealth Update
This plugin allows you to choose to update a post without having WordPress automatically update the post’s post_modified timestamp. WordPress maintains a post field called post_modified which tracks the date the post was last edited. This value is used by feeds to indicate the latest update to each post or to report the latest updated post. Plugins and themes may also reference the post modification date to call attention to posts that have been updated. However, if an update is such that you don’t want it to be recorded in the post_modified date field (perhaps due to the update being a small formatting/editing change or fixing a typo, or if you just want to keep quiet about an update), then this plugin is for you. This plugin adds a “Stealth update?” checkbox to the “Publish” box of any post’s or page’s “Edit Post” admin page. Note: The plugin records when a post is stealth updated, so subsequent edits of the post will have the “Stealth update?” checkbox checked by default. Links: Plugin Homepage | Plugin Directory Page | Author Homepage Filters The plugin is further customizable via two filters. Typically, these customizations would be put into your active theme’s functions.php file, or used by another plugin. c2c_stealth_update_meta_key (filter) The ‘c2c_stealth_update_meta_key’ filter allows you to override the name of the custom field key used by the plugin to store a post’s stealth update status. This isn’t a common need. Arguments: $custom_field_key (string): The custom field key to be used by the plugin. By default this is ‘_stealth-update’. Example: /** * Defines a custom meta key to be used by Stealth Update. * * @param string $custom_field_key The default custom field key name. * @return string */ function override_stealth_update_key( $custom_field_key ) { return '_my_custom_stealth-update'; } add_filter( 'c2c_stealth_update_meta_key', 'override_stealth_update_key' ); c2c_stealth_update_default (filter) The ‘c2c_stealth_update_default’ filter allows you to override the default state of the ‘Stealth Update?’ checkbox. Arguments: $state (boolean): The default state of the checkbox. By default this is false. $post (WP_Post): The post currently being created/edited. Example: // Have the Stealth Update? checkbox checked by default. add_filter( 'c2c_stealth_update_default', '__return_true' );
Top keywords
- update20×5.14%
- post18×4.63%
- stealth15×3.86%
