Deactivating the “lock modified date”

Hi,

your new feature is great, but not needed for me, as I developed something similar (and imho better ^^) a few years ago. You can see it on this post https://life-in-morocco.com/vintage-cars-morocco where the update is clearly explained.

Nevertheless, your feature somehow wreck havoc on the updates date. This page https://life-in-morocco.com/last-updates-posts should show the posts sorted by “modification dates”, but somehow, your feature creates a modification date even where there is none… it’s quite obvious with the posts that have a modified date just the same day as publication. And many posts are here just because I did something.

On another website, a customer had problems with his paid adds campaigns, because it changed the timeframes as we calculated them.

It is also a problem with my customers who get lost and do not understand what they have to do with it.

Is there a hook to safely get rid of the checkbox and prevent it from messing with my process ?

FYI, the “process” is a filter with standard priorities
add_filter( 'wp_insert_post_data', 'lln_filter_update_dates',10,2) ;