Reply To: Front End Form -> the_modified_time()

• phil.m

• August 22, 2013 at 10:54 pm

Hey thanks for replying man.

The function essentially does do nothing other than update the post object.

So instead of creating a function that updates the modified time row in the database, I’m using wp_post_update() to simply update the post object so wordpress stamps the new time.

So if I call this function on page load

function update_time() {
  $my_post = array();
  $my_post['ID'] = 1674; //or $post->ID in the loop
  wp_update_post( $my_post );
}
update_time();

the function runs and updates the post specified (in this case post id 1674) and wordpress updates the last modified time of the post.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_update_post they show an example of attaching this to save_post, which is basically what I’m trying to do.

I’ll just manually make the form since I’m only updating 2 meta values (and both of them are pre-populated select boxes lol).

I’ll mark it as solved but it would be interesting to know if its possible to do this.

thanks again