This is a very simple module that displays when a Joomla website was last “updated” in the sense of what is the date of the most recently published article in one or more selected categories. It may be useful to display the Joomla site name or some other text to show your site visitors when you published a new article. The text and the date format can be changed to suit your own preferences. The text can be displayed all on one line or on two lines.
I was very surprised that, in all the time Joomla has been available, no-one had thought to create a simple module like this. This module is probably compatible with all versions of Joomla after J! 3.9, but I haven’t tested every one of them.
Module settings
Details of each setting are described below.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Articles from | [Required] Select from one or more categories that you want to use for the most recently published article. If there are no currently published articles in those categories, the date will show as “Not known”. |
| Main text | [Optional] You can leave this blank or type any text you like. This field has no effect if the field Use site as main text is set to Yes. |
| Use site name as main text? | ( Yes | No ) Yes will use your site name as the main text; No will use the text you entered in the previous field. Yes is the default. |
| Container for line one | ( h1 | h2 | h3 | h4 | h5 | h6 ) This setting "wraps" the text as <h1>, <h2>, etc. |
| Text after main text | [Optional] By default, "Last Updated:" is the text that appears after the main text. This can be changed but it cannot be left blank. |
| Date format | The standard PHP date formatting codes are used. The default value is d F Y (e.g 06 May 2026). |
| One or two lines? | ( one line | two lines ) Displays the output one one or two lines; if the display is on two lines, the main text is on the first and the text after that is on the second line followed by the date. |
| Container for line two | ( h2 | h3 | h4 | h5 | h6 | p ) This setting "wraps" the text as <h2>, <h3>, etc. This option is available only if the user wants to display the information on two lines |
