Getting a list of the published posts

Which wp_get_recent_posts()do you retrieve the most recent posts. For meta data, like published date and modified date use additional functions.

For the published date is the_date() helpful.

For the modified date use the_modified_date().

The functions are a part of the Template Tags, useful for Theme and direct output. But she have also parameters to get the values for custom echo.

A small example:

<h2>Recent Posts</h2>
<ul>
<?php
    $args = array( 'numberposts' => '5' );
    $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args );

    foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ){

        echo '<li><a href="' . get_permalink($recent["ID"]) 
             . '">' .   $recent["post_title"] 
             . '</a> Published on ' 
             . the_date( $echo = FALSE ) 
             . ', Modified on ' 
             . the_modified_date( $echo = FALSE ) 
             . '</li> ';
    }
?>
</ul>

The example is not ready to use, especially translation ready. Enhance with the i18n functions from WordPress to create a solid, translatable and sanitized result with the helper functions for this topic, like esc_attr_e(), esc_attr__() and printf().

If you don’t like to use the parameters on the functions, more short. Then use the functions, there was used inside the Template Tags – get_the_modified_date() and get_the_date().

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