Hello Digital & SEO,
Thanks for reaching out regarding the lastmodifiedtime in your sitemap. You mentioned that the lastmodifiedtime is not updated for the homepage. Does this apply to other pages on the site? If you go to WordPress > Settings > General, can you confirm the timezone and formats are set as expected?
We look forward to hearing from you.
Hi,
The problem is not that the date is incorrectly configured in the settings.
The problem is that even if you update the HOME PAGE (it really happens with any page), the modification date in the sitemaps does not change.
Thanks
Hi @digitalandseo
When checking your homepage and viewing the page source, we do see that the data related to the last modified date seems to reflect with what is showing in the page sitemap as well:
<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2022-05-19T09:53:38+00:00" />
dateModified":"2022-05-19T09:53:38+00:00”
If you were to go to your pages overview section, could you check what date appears in the last modified date column for your homepage?
Hi,
Natively, as far as I know, from the page listing I can’t see the page modification date. or yes?
I had to install a plugin and that leads me to confusion, because you asked me for the modification date as if it were something that the WP incorporates.
I would appreciate if it can be done, tell me how without having to have a plugin.
On the other hand, yes, this date that you tell me appears in the WP PAGE LIST
Thanks.
I think I have found the problem.
I have been able to verify that the theme I use (BeTheme) does not update the modification date, but if I do it from the WP editor itself, it works perfectly.
So I understand that it is not your fault.
I have reported the problem to the theme but they are not paying much attention to me (the theme is dipo divi, Elementor, etc…).
I don’t know if you have contact with them internally so that they can pay more attention, because all the clients that use that theme with your Yoast SEO plugin, the sitemaps “are useless” if they don’t update the date.
Thank you.
Hi @digitalandseo
The ‘date’ field should be a native WordPress field and should show either the ‘published date’ or the ‘last modified date’ in the columns in the overview section of the pages. We understand that this might be an issue with your chosen theme, so we suggest reaching out to them for support as well, as the Yoast SEO plugin should use the WordPress fields that it is parsing.
I marked this thread as resolved due to a lack of activity by the original poster. The original poster is always welcome to re-open this topic.
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