Add "Last Edited" to posts

[trashcatt]

I'd like to be able to show the date of the last edit to a post on the post (ideally next to the post date).

Is there an easy way to do this already that I'm just overlooking?

[ichard26]

Not sure if this counts as your definition of easy but you can override the theme's post_meta.html partial (i.e. the template used to generate the metadata line after the page title / description) to include this information, here's how I do it on my website. You can then set the lastmod key in the page frontmatter. When both date and lastmod are defined it'll something like this (well the colour change I applied here is separate)

[d4n3sh]

I was just thinking of doing this today. Thanks! :D

[felipecrp]

👍I created a PR (#1703) based on this suggestion.

[beiyuouo]

To use .Lastmod parameter, you also need to set enableGitInfo: true in your site’s configuration file.

[ichard26]

You could also set the lastmod source to use :fileModTime instead using Git information like me fwiw.

[beiyuouo]

Actually, I use GitHub actions to deploy my blog, so the time of filemod is always the deployment time XD. GitInfo is necessary for me.