Snippet: Alter the Blog Post Published Date to Last Modified Date

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Important: You can now do this via the Customizer by default since Total 5.4.6 - Please do not use the snippet anymore!

The following snippet can be used to modify the default published date in the theme's post meta to display the last modified date instead.

function myprefix_modify_blog_meta_blocks( $blocks ) {
    if ( is_array( $blocks ) && isset( $blocks['date'] ) ) {
        $blocks['date'] = function() {
            $icon = wpex_get_theme_icon_html( 'clock-o' );
            echo  $icon . 'Updated on ' . esc_html( get_the_modified_date( get_option( 'date_format' ) ) );
        };
    }
    return $blocks;
}
add_filter( 'totaltheme/blog/meta_blocks/entry_blocks', 'myprefix_modify_blog_meta_blocks' );
add_filter( 'totaltheme/blog/meta_blocks/singular_blocks', 'myprefix_modify_blog_meta_blocks' );
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