[alave]

Hi,
I am looking for a solution to have my topic author post date to be updated whenever the topic/post content is edited – but cannot work out a way to do this effectively.

I have attempted to manually change post date as suggested at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/changing-post-dates/ but it does not seem to work.

Any solution or ideas?

The reason is I have topics that were created 2-3 years ago that I regularly update depending on new information/changes to the topic subject. I don’t want to lose any comments associated with the topic and its completely inefficient to be deleting each topic and recreating them periodically.

Thank you!

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I haven’t used this together with bbpress topics… but does get_the_modified_time() work? https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_modified_time/

[alave]

Hey! I’m not too comfortable on directly editing files and was hoping there would be a quick fix/selector I could add {display; none} too.

Thanks for the suggestion!

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Yes you could use

.bbp-reply-post-date {
    display: none;
}

to hide you bbpress reply post date.

But to display the post modified date you would need to add this function in you child theme templates whereever you want to display, eg replace
bbp_topic_post_date();
with
the_modified_date();
in templates/content-single-topic-lead.php

[evidia]

change post date

[evidia]

sorry, I was trying it out and wrote in this thread by error. I did all the steps, but where can I change the post date now?