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Last modified for blog posts and list/details items
Hi Guys,
Is it possible to get the last modified date for blog posts and list and detail individual items, I know there is a perch_page_modified() tag, but this only gets the individual page date. So in the instance of the blog it would get the post.php page.
Looking to add in a last modified header so that search engines can see this and also utilise this when building XML sitemaps on the server.
Thanks Terry
Is the
postDateTimenot the last modified date for a blog post?Yes I guess it it. What about list item pages?
You'd need a dated item of content for those.
Is there a way to set the date in the backend to change to today's date when you click to edit/save the page? Could I pass this in with a variable? Would that only be applied on save?
The page has a modified date, yes - that's where you started from.
What you really need is a date on the content.
Yes sorry not been clear. What I meant was if I added a date on the content that that date field could be automaticallly updated to today's date/time when you go to edit the page in the admin panel, otherwise I think it would store the date set when you originally create the content.
Not a big issue, just tying to cut out manual work and explore new things/ways of working.
Or what would be useful is a perch_page_modified but for each item in the list/details page. Just throwing that into the mix. Probably an edge case though.
I had the same issue, as I needed the modification date for each list/detail item to create an Atom feed. I solved it by creating a simple new field type that always saves the modification date.
In case anyone else wants to use it, I created a gist for it:
Thanks Manuel. The link seems to be broken though. But this would be a useful field type.
Fixed it, apparently you cannot use markdown links for gists in this forum.