As I believe that I answered to you earlier (or perhaps it was another user with a similar question), while the WordPress database has a field to store the date when a link was last updated, it does not write data to that field.
You need to install a plugin such as http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/link-updated/ to start populating that field and then you will start seeing appropriate dates.
Thread Starter
Ruriko
(@ruriko)
I installed that plugin and then i added a new link but it still shows January 01 1970. I had a look at the database and link_updated is showing dates. So why does it still show incorrect dates?
After installing the plugin, it will start putting data in the date field after you re-save your links. Have you tried saving any of your existing links or creating a new link?
I think that your two options are:
– go in every link that you have and re-save them to set their date to today
or
– go in the Phpmyadmin panel for your web site and manually populate the date file to represent the actual date when you added the links.
Thread Starter
Ruriko
(@ruriko)
I have tried both options and it still shows the incorrect date. I even done it on a fresh installed blog. My phpmyadmin shows the correct date but on wordpress it doesn’t
Oops. You’re right. Download version 2.6.1 and you should now see the dates correctly. I stopped testing when I saw dates, just thinking that it would work fine as soon as real data would be put in.
I implemented my own version of the functionality from the link-update plugin to set an updated date on links when you add of edit them. So you should be able to safely remove the link-updated plugin from your site and retain the functionality that will put data in the updated field.
