Reply To: Updating post modified date

• dano23

• March 22, 2016 at 7:33 am

Ok, thanks. I think I was able to get this working. The post_modified date is now updating when we edit on the front end. However, I am also seeing new errors pop up with another plugin, so not sure if I did this right. (It’s possible these errors may not be related.)

I’m not that familiar with the wpdb class so let me know if anything looks incorrect.

Here is my code:

function my_acf_save_post( $post_id ) {

  // bail out early if we don't need to update the date
  if( is_admin() || $post_id == 'new' ) {

     return;

   }

   global $wpdb;

   $datetime = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

   $query = "UPDATE $wpdb->posts
	     SET
              post_modified = '$datetime'
             WHERE
              ID = '$post_id'";

    $wpdb->query( $query );

}

// run after ACF saves the $_POST['acf'] data
add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post', 20);

Thanks!