Updating old blog posts is a great way to keep your content fresh and improve its quality. It also helps to keep Google happy and can improve your blog’s rankings. In this article, we will show you how to display your recently updated posts with a plugin and how to create a custom query to display recently updated/modified posts anywhere on your site.
Display Recently Updated (Modified) Posts with a Query
If you are working on a theme or plugin and want to display recently updated or modified posts, simply paste the following code wherever you want the posts to display:
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// Show recently modified posts
$recently_updated_posts = new WP_Query( array(
‘post_type’ => ‘post’,
‘posts_per_page’ => 3,
‘orderby’ => ‘modified’,
‘no_found_rows’ => true, // speed up query when we don’t need pagination
‘category_name’ => ‘news’, // Only display posts from the category with the slug “news”
) );
if ( $recently_updated_posts->have_posts() ) :
while( $recently_updated_posts->have_posts() ) : $recently_updated_posts->the_post(); ?>
// Show recently modified posts
$recently_updated_posts = new WP_Query( array(
‘post_type’ => ‘post’,
‘posts_per_page’ => 3,
‘orderby’ => ‘modified’,
‘no_found_rows’ => true, // speed up query when we don’t need pagination
) );
if ( $recently_updated_posts->have_posts() ) :
while( $recently_updated_posts->have_posts() ) : $recently_updated_posts->the_post(); ?>
