---
title: Show Last Updated
description: Display when a documentation page was last updated, and optionally who made the change.
---

Help readers understand how current your documentation is by displaying the date a page was last updated. You can also show the name of the person who made the most recent change.

---

## Enable the Last Updated footer

CamelMind displays the **Last updated** footer by default.

To explicitly enable or disable it, update `camelmind.config.ts`:

```ts
site: {
  showLastUpdated: true,
},
```

To hide the footer on all pages:

```ts
site: {
  showLastUpdated: false,
},
```

When enabled, CamelMind displays the last updated date at the bottom of every documentation page.

---

## Show the author

To include the author of the most recent change, enable `showLastUpdateAuthor`:

```ts
site: {
  showLastUpdated: true,
  showLastUpdateAuthor: true,
},
```

Example:

```text
🕐 Last updated by Jane Doe on July 22, 2026
```

If `showLastUpdateAuthor` is disabled, only the date is shown.

```text
🕐 July 22, 2026
```

<Callout type="note">
`showLastUpdateAuthor` has no effect when `showLastUpdated` is disabled.
</Callout>

---

## Override the last updated date

By default, CamelMind determines the last updated date automatically. If you want to display a specific date instead, add the `last_updated` field to the page's frontmatter.

```md
---
title: Getting started
last_updated: "2026-06-01"
---
```

CamelMind displays this value instead of the automatically detected date.

---

## How CamelMind determines the date

CamelMind determines the last updated date in the following order:

1. The page's `last_updated` frontmatter field, if present.
2. Otherwise, the file's last modified timestamp.

---

## How CamelMind determines the author

When `showLastUpdateAuthor` is enabled, CamelMind uses the author of the most recent Git commit that modified the page.

If Git history isn't available—for example, when building from an exported archive—the author is omitted even if the feature is enabled.

<Callout type="important" title="Limitations">

- The **Last updated** footer is configured globally for the entire documentation site.
- Individual pages cannot currently hide the footer.
- The author name cannot be overridden in frontmatter.

</Callout>