SharePoint 2010 - How do I display the date last modifed/modified by on publishing page

Question

I have a publishing page and I need to be able to display - Modified by and Modified date for the page itself - not the dates for the master page.

Answer 1

If you are doing this in code behind, try playing with SPContext.Current.Item

I believe the values you needs would be SPContext.Current.Item["Editor"]

and SPContext.Current.Item["Modified"]

Answer 2

Publishing pages also use a page layout. You can create a new page layout - or copy one of the existing ones and edit it. I generally use SPD for this. A page layout is based on a content type. In this case all content types will have Modified and Modified By so no problem - but in future you can also add custom fields if you want to as long as they are included in the related content type.

When editing the page layout you can insert fields from the content type into the page. From the Insert ribbon tab select SharePoint-> Show Toolbox. This will make a new toolbox appear on the right hand side. At the bottom of this you will find a section titled Content Fields - these can be dragged onto your page layout as needed.

Good luck.

Answer 3

Those columns can be found in the Site Pages library. Add a data view web part for that library, and the default view should include both Modified and Modified By.

To add this information to an individual page, insert an existing list web part and pick Site Pages as your list. Edit the Web Part and change the view: remove all columns aside from Modified and Modified By, and add a filter to show only items where Name = {whatever your page's name is}. Change the Web Part name to something like "Last Edited" or just hide the title, and you should have exactly what you're looking for.

If you want to add something to the master page so that every published page will include Modified and Modified By, add a data view web part of the Site Pages library. In SharePoint Designer, add the Server Parameter HTTP_URL, then filter the data view web part to only show items where the Url is equal to your new parameter. This will error out in SPD but work on the live sites to show only the page that you're on. Pretty it up by hiding unnecessary columns like above and you're set.