By hillaryneaf on

Is it possible to change or modify the drupal core (patch... template... something?) to make it use the "Updated date" in place of the "Creation Date"?

On the site I created, articles go through a workflow. They are immediately published (as far as drupal knows) and then in a submitted state from the Workflow module. When they are finally published (possibly days/weeks later), I would like them to use that date on the homepage in the "Posted on" date line instead of the creation date. And then also sort by the creation date.

Before anyone else suggests it.. I already tried creating a custom view for the home page that sorted by creation date, but I have several taxonomy pages that will not sort this way unless I turn ever taxonomy page I have into a view... which is not an acceptable solution.

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hillaryneaf commented

Just in case someone else comes across this... I found a solution.

I created the custom view for the homepage that sorted by creation date and then in Views module there is a default view called "Taxonomy Term". I enabled that view and changed the Sort from "Creation Date > Descending" to "Updated Date > Descending".

Now the only difference is the Posted Date still shows the creation date. This can be changed with theming, as stated here:
http://drupal.org/node/32141