Change Blog “Posted On” Date To “Last Updated On” Date in WordPress

Over the years you may have published a large number of blog posts.

If there are posts that are more than three years old, you may find that some of the content on those old posts is no longer valid and needs to be updated.

On WordPress, you can do this easily. All you need to do is to go into the “Edit Post” mode in WordPress, change your content, and hit “Update” to have the new content show up.

The problem with this approach is that WordPress still shows the original post date to the readers. This is usually not what we want because users may look at the old date and quickly assume that the information contained there is out of date, and that is exactly the opposite of what we want.

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WordPress Permalink Stops Working

I recently migrated to a new Linux server with a different version of Apache, and for a while I could not get the WordPress permalinks to work. After a lot of trial and error, I figured out what the problem was, and I hope the information I share here will help someone in the future.

Below are the relevant system information:
OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Web Server: Apache 2.4.18

What was the initial symptom?

The home page of the blog loaded OK. However, when I clicked on any link to go into any post, category, or month, I got a 404 error.

For those of you who wants to know the answer right away without reading through my journey of getting there, go to the Fix section.

Things I tried

I tried a number of ways to resolve this issue. They were as follows:

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