Blog articles should emphasize last modified time and not emphasize the original publish date

[MichelleBlanchette]

I didn't understand SEO as well when choosing the path pattern for PTC's blog articles, but now I know better.

PTC features evergreen articles about general WordPress knowledge. We don't publish time-relative news or announcements (unless its about our own product releases, for example), so the blog URL paths shouldn't include the publish date as they do now.

You could say the same about how media is organized into the year month directories, too.

Also, the "Last Modified" date should be emphasized in frontend display (index article cards and singular template) rather than the original publish date. We also shouldn't tuck anything away in title attributes like the Last Modified time currently is on the question mark icon. It's not accessible.

So here's what we need to do:

• Test updating the permalink structure (implement 301 is necessary) — We might not need to implement 301 redirects because WordPress automatically and cleverly resolves the URLs by detecting the post slug regardless of pattern matching.
• Display the Last Modified time on the blog index cards
• Display the Last Modified time on the singular blog post template
• Sort blog posts by Last Modified time in index/archives

Bonus points:

• Change media storage to not use subdirectories – How does this affect new and existing media uploads and media library choices? How does this affect media in blog articles and site pages?