Customize WordPress Post Date to Display Last Modified Date
There is so much debate about whether or not you should display the date in your WordPress posts. The post date of publication is in fact displayed by default.
However, many bloggers prefer to disable this option. Their decision can be for a number of reasons:
- The search engines pick up the date that appears on the post which means it is displayed in the search engine results pages (SERPs). If the date is a few years old, then this can be off-putting for readers who subsequently choose to click on something more recent. (more…)