Update date for a blog post

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I have wrote a blog article on 23 of January, this is also written in the "date: " front matter.
Now I have updated the blog post.

When I change the "date: " in the front matter is the original post date gone, isn’t it?

The only solution what I see is to add some kind of ‘Histroy table’ some ware on the blog site.
Any other ideas or solutions?

2

You might find what you’re looking for in the docs. There are several date-based variables for you to choose from: https://gohugo.io/variables/page/#page-variables

3

thanks.

I have added

lastmod: 2017-08-20

into the font matter

I have tried the following but none of them works.

Last modified: {{ .Page.Date.Lastmod }}
Last modified: {{ .Date.Lastmod }}
Last modified: {{ .Lastmod }}

I use netlify.

4

That last one should work for sure. I can’t say much without seeing your templates.

5

Ah okay maybe that’s the problem. I use this in a content file.

Is this possible there?

6

You can’t have spaces in front matter keys:

lastmod: 2017-08-30

7

Thanks.

It’s now solved with a shortcode.

layouts/shortcodes/lastmod.html

{{ dateFormat ( or $.Site.Params.dateFormat "2006, Jan 02" ) $.Page.Params.LastMod }}
8

Glad it worked out. I’m still a little confused on your use case, but in the event that I might be on the same page w/r/t to what you’re trying to accomplish, you might want to check out the following: