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!

[@traverser11 Participant 4 years, 3 months ago]

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 Participant 4 years, 3 months ago]

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!

[@traverser11 Participant 4 years, 3 months ago]

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 Participant 4 years, 2 months ago]

change post date

[@evidia Participant 4 years, 2 months ago]

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?