A WordPress post with a last modified date often gets a better ranking than that with a published date. The last updated date stamp, usually, informs searchers or readers how fresh the post is. Few people click a post from an older date, say a timestamp on May 4. The content may be too outdated to work practically. Also, that’s not SEO friendly. Searchers prefer to open those pages with timestamps like “3 days ago”, “8 hours ago”...
The built-in settings and plugins just scratch the surface of what’s possible. Adding the snippets below to your wordpress themes/child themes or plugin, you can achieve some granular modifications. 1.Change Your Excerpt’s Length Would you like to use an excerpt but you find the 55 word default a bit on the short side? You can modify it to your heart’s content using the excerpt_length filter. It’s easy, the following will double the length of the excerpt to 110 words: 2.Redirect...
