{"id":4863,"date":"2013-03-25T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2013-03-23T21:34:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T21:34:41","slug":"presenting-a-warning-for-potentially-outdated-blog-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/presenting-a-warning-for-potentially-outdated-blog-content.htm","title":{"rendered":"Presenting a warning for potentially outdated blog content"},"content":{"rendered":"

My older blog posts still seem to generate the odd bit of interest with people posting and asking for advice on potentially out-of-date topics (although one about Photoshop 7 crashing on startup<\/a> is still one of my most popular posts!)<\/p>\n

Some time ago, I decided to add a warning to these pages, to say something like “This post was originally published in 2011 and its contents may now be out-of-date.”<\/p>\n

It’s implemented as a bit of PHP code in a WordPress widget:<\/p>\n

1 ) { ?><\/p>\n

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Warning<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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This post was originally published in and its contents may now be out-of-date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nothing particularly clever here, but it struck me that this might be useful for other WordPress site owners…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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