How to get the most recent modified date of anything in the footer of my site?
Just a continuation from mozboz’ answer. For those curious as I was, you could use the date() or date_i18n() functions to format the date properly in the following snippet. function get_latest_update_date() { global $wpdb; $thelatest = $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT max(post_modified) FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type IN (‘post’, ‘page’);”); //returns formatted date like 13.08.2001 return date_i18n(‘j.m.Y’, strtotime($thelatest)); } add_shortcode(‘latestupdatedate’, … Read more