[Resolved] How to show last updated date (not published) in a view loop?

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[Himanshu Agarwal]

I need to show last update date in a view loop for every item. I used

[wpv-post-date type="modified"]

shortcode to show the last update date, its working fine but if a post is recently published then its showing published date.

I want something like this

if post is published show nothing.

But if a published post updated then show that updated date.

if(post published)
{
//nothing
}elseif(published post updated)
{
Updated on: 09-01-2019
}

Please let me how to make this possible.

[Nigel]

If you look in the database at the wp_posts table, you will see that WordPress stores the post_date (when published) and post_modified fields, which the View shortcode wpv-post-date outputs (with or without type="modified").

When a post is published post_modified is set to be equal to post_date, rather than being empty.

So you could use the wpv-conditional shortcode and test whether the post_date and post_modified are not equal, which would mean the post had been updated, e.g.:

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-date]' ne '[wpv-post-date type='modified']' )"]
<p>updated: [wpv-post-date type='modified']</p>
[/wpv-conditional]

[Himanshu Agarwal]

Thank you NIgel.