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Written by Léonie Watson on 2025-01-05 at 16:43

Hello people wise in the ways of #Eleventy - what's the best way to show both the original post date of a blog post and, optionally, the date it was last modified? 🙏

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Written by Boris Schapira on 2025-01-05 at 16:46

@tink Hey! I know you can add a parameter in a YAML Front-Matter that automatically collects some key dates, like the "Last Modified" date. The documentation is here: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/dates/

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Written by Fynn Ellie Becker on 2025-01-05 at 16:51

@boostmarks @tink I was also thinking about these Eleventy date adjustment keywords. But they always override the “page.date” property, right? So it wouldn’t be an additional “lastModified” property accessible from the template but still the “date” property, now with a different value.

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Written by Fynn Ellie Becker on 2025-01-05 at 16:59

@boostmarks @tink There is a discussion on GitHub talking about this and the solution there is to manually set up frontmatter to track the modified date:

https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/discussions/2332

There’s also a GitHub issue asking for the date keywords for other data properties than “date”, but this didn’t go anywhere yet:

https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/2660

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Written by Boris Schapira on 2025-01-05 at 17:16

@mvsde @tink You're right, I assumed you wanted this, and my experience is quite limited another way. What if you use the date parameter for Last Modified and another one for a manually inputted date?

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Written by Zoë Bijl on 2025-01-06 at 11:18

@mvsde @boostmarks @tink that’s what I ended up doing (a lastupdated property in the front matter). Slightly more work but also more control? Like an update to the front matter—and thereby git commit date—doesn’t necessarily equal a content/article update imo.

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Written by Léonie Watson on 2025-01-06 at 13:32

@moiety Agreed. I don't want/need every minor modification to the post to be flagged, only substantive updates, so this frontmatter approach looks like a good fit.@mvsde @boostmarks

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Written by Alexei S. on 2025-01-05 at 17:25

@tink Raymond Camden did a post about this last year

https://www.raymondcamden.com/2023/08/31/fun-with-front-matter-part-3-handling-edits

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Written by Léonie Watson on 2025-01-05 at 17:50

@alexei Thanks. That looks promising!

Thanks also to @boostmarks and @mvsde for pointers and suggestions.

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