Hi, One thing that I often forget to do when editing web content is to update the front matter property lastmod Typically, I should update this property to be YYYY-MM-DD for current date. Well, I often forget… So I was thinking, is there a way to programmatically set this property to the date th…

There was a plugin to do this, maybe it still works? or maybe can point you in the right direction? The main issue is there is no db where you could easily check the last mod date - so somehow you would have to get it off the file itself. [image] GitHub - gjtorikian/jekyll-last-modified-a…

I use the plugin last_modified. Its filename is jekyll-file-last-modified.rb, the file sits in the _plugins folder and thus does not need to be mentioned in _config.yml, it’s automatically available. Here’s the code: # 2020-01-10 dealt with error when file does not exist # 2019-01-18 added, and use…

[image] michaelbach: To use this tag (in my footer include) I capture the file’s modification date like so: {% capture lastModificationDate %}{% last_modified {{ page.path }} %}{% endcapture % Thanks. This might work. I see that you use it to get modification date in the actual content of t…

I will take a look at this but I am probably not going to be able to modify the code to fit my needs as I know very little ruby.

Oh my, that would be quite involved, methinks. Have not advice there, sorry.

This is the plugin I use for my site, and it works fine. One caveat is that you have to fetch the entire Git history in a build pipeline, or else the plugin falls back to mtime, which is often much more recent than actual changes to the file. For example, when deploying with GitHub Actions, you’d n…

I am not sure I understand - how does this plugin set the lastmod time in the front matter? page.last_modified_at is a variable you use in your content, right? Can I access this in front matter?

[image] VillyVretthorn: I am not sure I understand - how does this plugin set the lastmod time in the front matter? page.last_modified_at is a variable you use in your content, right? Can I access this in front matter? Exactly, my theme uses that variable where the last modified date should …

[image] bewuethr: Rather, you’d have to use page.last_modified_at wherever you currently use page.lastmod instead. Hmm… OK. Maybe that’ll work… Although this seems like a pretty big change…

[image] VillyVretthorn: Hmm… OK. Maybe that’ll work… Although this seems like a pretty big change… It’s potentially a very small change, depending on how you use that front matter field; you might have to update just one or two layout files.

How to set lastmod to file modified date?

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VillyVretthorn October 13, 2023, 9:04pm 11

Hmm… OK. Maybe that’ll work… Although this seems like a pretty big change…

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