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Best Post Update Dates & Metadata plugins for WordPress

Categories Content Management

Plugins that display and manage post publication or last-updated dates, timestamps, and related author or structured metadata on site content.

Read from 131,125 plugin records - figures refreshed 6 hours ago

23 Plugins classified here Out of the plugins that have been through the classifier so far
141K Combined active installs Summed across the published bands, so read it as an order of magnitude
4.53 Average rating Across the 22 here that carry a rating at all

The plugins

Plugins in Post Update Dates & Metadata

Ranked by active installs; plugins in the same published band share a rank. Each page has a maintenance check and the alternatives.

#1

WP Last Modified Info

wp-last-modified-info 40K installs · 4.9 stars
#2

Hide/Remove Metadata

hide-metadata 20K installs · 3.6 stars
#2

Reading Time WP

reading-time-wp 20K installs · 4.8 stars
#4

Bulk Post Update Date

bulk-post-update-date 10K installs · 4.7 stars
#4

WP Author, Date and Meta Remover

wp-author-date-and-meta-remover 10K installs · 3.2 stars
#4

Meks Time Ago

meks-time-ago 10K installs · 4.3 stars
#7

Post Date Randomizer

post-date-randomizer 8K installs · 5.0 stars
#8

Bulk Datetime Change

bulk-datetime-change 6K installs · 5.0 stars
#9

Change Last Modified Date

change-last-modified-date 3K installs · 4.3 stars
#9

Seed Buddhist Year

seed-buddhist-year 3K installs · 4.9 stars
#11

Auto Update Post Date

auto-update-post-date 2K installs · 5.0 stars
#11

WP Old Post Date Remover

wp-old-post-date-remover 2K installs · 4.5 stars
#11

Republish Old Posts

republish-old-posts 2K installs · 4.3 stars
#11

Persian Date

persian-date 2K installs · 4.5 stars
#15

Default Post Author

default-post-author 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#16

WP Hebrew Date

wordpress-hebrew-date 600 installs · 5.0 stars
#17

Display Post Metadata

display-post-metadata 400 installs · 5.0 stars
#18

Reading Time

reading-time 200 installs · 3.7 stars
#18

Freshtag – Last Modified Info & Timestamp, Detect Old Content, Boost SEO

freshtag 200 installs
#18

Wareki

wareki 200 installs · 5.0 stars
#18

bbp last post

bbp-last-post 200 installs · 5.0 stars
#22

Auto Republish & Permalink Manager

auto-republish-permalink-manager 100 installs · 5.0 stars
#22

WP-RelativeDate

wp-relativedate 100 installs · 3.0 stars

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