Added support for adding update dates to blog posts

material/blog-post.html

@@ -50,6 +50,16 @@
                   </time>
                 </div>
               </li>
+              {% if page.meta.date_updated %}
+                <li class="md-nav__item">
+                  <div class="md-nav__link">
+                    {% include ".icons/material/calendar-clock.svg" %}
+                    <time datetime="{{ page.meta.date_updated }}" class="md-ellipsis">
+                      {{- page.meta.date_updated_format -}}
+                    </time>
+                  </div>
+                </li>
+              {% endif %}
               {% if page.categories %}
                 <li class="md-nav__item">
                   <div class="md-nav__link">

material/plugins/blog/plugin.py

@@ -358,6 +358,12 @@ class BlogPlugin(BasePlugin[BlogConfig]):
             page.meta["date"], date_format, config
         )
 
+        # Format date of last update for rendering
+        if "date_updated" in page.meta:
+            page.meta["date_updated_format"] = self._format_date(
+                page.meta["date_updated"], date_format, config
+            )
+
         # Compute readtime if desired and not explicitly set
         if self.config.post_readtime:
 

mkdocs.yml

@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ theme:
 
 # Plugins
 plugins:
+  - blog
   - search:
       separator: '[\s\-,:!=\[\]()"`/]+|\.(?!\d)|&[lg]t;|(?!\b)(?=[A-Z][a-z])'
   - minify:
@@ -231,10 +232,3 @@ nav:
       - Changelog: insiders/changelog.md
   - Blog:
     - blog/index.md
-    - 2022:
-      - blog/posts/blog-support-just-landed.md
-      - blog/posts/chinese-search-support.md
-    - 2021:
-      - blog/posts/the-past-present-and-future.md
-      - blog/posts/excluding-content-from-search.md
-      - blog/posts/search-better-faster-smaller.md

src/blog-post.html

@@ -87,6 +87,18 @@
                 </div>
               </li>
 
+              <!-- Page date updated -->
+              {% if page.meta.date_updated %}
+                <li class="md-nav__item">
+                  <div class="md-nav__link">
+                    {% include ".icons/material/calendar-clock.svg" %}
+                    <time datetime="{{ page.meta.date_updated }}" class="md-ellipsis">
+                      {{- page.meta.date_updated_format -}}
+                    </time>
+                  </div>
+                </li>
+              {% endif %}
+
               <!-- Page categories -->
               {% if page.categories %}
                 <li class="md-nav__item">

src/plugins/blog/plugin.py

@@ -358,6 +358,12 @@ class BlogPlugin(BasePlugin[BlogConfig]):
             page.meta["date"], date_format, config
         )
 
+        # Format date of last update for rendering
+        if "date_updated" in page.meta:
+            page.meta["date_updated_format"] = self._format_date(
+                page.meta["date_updated"], date_format, config
+            )
+
         # Compute readtime if desired and not explicitly set
         if self.config.post_readtime: