User last modified – possible?

  • michael walker

    (@michael-walker)


    8 years ago

    First – thanks for this very useful plug-in – appreciated. I’d like to be able to display a ‘record last updated’ date field within a user’s profile – to show the last time the user or an admin amended or updated that record. This would be a field that auto-populated or updated when a record was saved – so, similar in some ways to what your plug-in achieves with posts etc. This doesn’t seem to be natively available from within WP. I am wondering if there is a way to do this, or whether maybe your plug-in could be modified to achieve it? Or maybe someone knows of another plug-in which will perform this function? Many thanks in advance for any help – and again, thanks to the author for this!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/last-modified-timestamp/

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  • Plugin Author Evan Mattson

    (@aaemnnosttv)

    8 years ago

    Hi Michael, glad to hear the plugin has proved useful for you! Thank you.

    Regarding your question, WordPress does not store a timestamp in the database when a user is modified, as it does with posts. While that doesn’t make your request impossible, it becomes kind of a hand-rolled solution. Basically the plugin would have to listen for the change and maintain it’s own timestamp as user meta or something.

    One plugin that comes to mind that does way more than you’re asking for, but you might find useful is Stream. Stream is an event logging plugin for WP which records all kinds of changes, with information about who did it, when, etc.

    Maybe there’s a better plugin which does more of just what you’re looking for but I haven’t really looked. If the timestamp was already available via WP, I would definitely consider extending the existing functionality to users. Unfortunately, that’s not the case 🙂

    Thanks for the suggestion!

    Thread Starter michael walker

    (@michael-walker)

    8 years ago

    Thanks for your very prompt and helpful reply. I will investigate Stream.

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