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title: "Content freshness for WordPress"
url: https://hostmy.blog/plugins/rankready/content-freshness-wordpress/
date: 2026-09-03
modified: 2026-09-03
lang: en
author: "Rajendra Zore"
description: "Stale pages are roughly 3x more likely to lose AI citations. RankReady finds which of your posts have gone stale and tells you which to fix first."
word_count: 659
---

# Content freshness for WordPress

RankReady scans your library, finds the posts that have gone stale, and ranks them by what is worth fixing first. About five minutes to set up, and it works alongside Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SEOPress.

v1.3.1 · 300 active installs · Tested to WordPress 7.1 · Runs alongside Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SEOPress

## Age is not the problem.Being wrong is.

Analysis of AI citation behaviour puts stale pages at roughly three times more likely to lose citations. The same work puts the median cited page at about 298 days old. Evergreen authority beats recency, so this is not about publishing constantly.

![The Content Freshness card in RankReady, scanning published posts for staleness and reporting how many are past the sixty-day threshold.](https://hostmy.blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/rr130-freshness.png)

## Signals a machine reads,not the date your theme prints.

Every post is bucketed and ranked, and the editing stays yours.

![The WordPress Posts list on hostmy.blog with the RankReady column added on the right, showing the per-post Summary and FAQ state against each published post.](https://hostmy.blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/rr130-posts-list.png)

#### Real modification dates

datePublished and dateModified in the structured data, and whether the visible date on the page agrees with them.

#### Age against your own library

So a five year old reference post is not flagged the same way as a five year old best tools of the year list.

#### Decay signals inside the content

Year references that have passed, version numbers that have moved on, and the other tells that a post is claiming to be current while it is not.

#### Priority order

Ranked by opportunity rather than alphabetically, so you fix the post that matters rather than the one that sorts first.

#### Bucketed into fresh, going stale and stale

A list you can work through, with the state visible from the WordPress posts list rather than only inside the plugin.

#### dateModified written when content changes

Not on a schedule, not on a button. The signal follows the edit.

## Changing a dateis not updating.

The reason this feature is deliberately smaller than it could be.

#### It reports, it does not rewrite

The scanner ranks and buckets. Editing is yours, deliberately, because an automated content edit you did not review is how a blog gets quietly wrecked.

#### There is no republish with today's date

The median cited page is around 298 days old, so age itself is not the problem. Change the content when it is wrong and let the date follow.

#### It is not a traffic audit

Traditional content audits look at rankings and sessions. This looks at whether the machine readable freshness signals are present, correct and consistent with the page.

#### It does not touch your SEO plugin

Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SEOPress keep their own output. RankReady reads and writes its own freshness data.

## The honest answers,before you have to ask.

## Make your site readableto the things reading it.

RankReady is a WordPress AI SEO plugin. It runs alongside Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SEOPress rather than replacing any of them, and setup takes about five minutes from your dashboard.

Free, no account, no credit card · GPL-2.0 · About five minutes from your dashboard

## Questions people actually ask

### Should I republish old posts with today's date?

No. The median cited page is around 298 days old, so age itself is not the problem. Change the content when it is wrong, and let the date follow.

### How is this different from an SEO plugin's content audit?

Traditional audits look at rankings and traffic. This looks at whether the freshness signals a machine reads are present, correct and consistent with what your page actually says.

### Does the scanner change anything automatically?

No. It reports and ranks. Editing is yours, because an automated content edit you did not review is how a blog gets quietly wrecked.

### Can I bulk update dateModified?

You can select posts you have genuinely edited and write the signal in one pass. There is no button that fakes it on posts you have not touched.

### Does it work with Yoast or Rank Math installed?

Yes. It runs alongside Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SEOPress and does not modify their output.

### How long does setup take?

About five minutes. Open Insights, turn on the freshness scan, and work down the list.