About this plugin
Is your old content getting buried? Auto Republish & Permalink Manager breathes new life into your evergreen posts, bringing them back to the top to increase your traffic and engagement. It’s the ultimate tool for content creators who want to maximize their existing work and improve their site’s SEO without manual effort.
By intelligently updating the “last modified” date, you signal to Google that your content is fresh and relevant, which can significantly boost your search rankings.
Why Choose Auto Republish & Permalink Manager?
- 📈 Boost Your SEO & Traffic: Refreshing content tells search engines your site is actively maintained, helping you rank higher. Choose to update the original publish date to bring posts to the top of your blog, or just the modified date for a pure SEO boost.
- ⚙️ Works With EVERYTHING – Automatically!: Our plugin dynamically detects ALL custom post types. Whether you run a blog, a WooCommerce store, or have custom post types for recipes, jobs, or listings, it just works. No configuration is needed.
- 🕒 Save Dozens of Hours: Stop wasting time manually updating old posts. Set up a schedule in minutes and let the plugin handle the rest. Our powerful and reliable cron-based system runs silently in the background.
- 🚀 Safe for Large Websites: Processing thousands of posts? No problem. All bulk operations are done in safe, asynchronous batches to prevent server timeouts and ensure smooth operation on any hosting environment.
- 🎨 Modern & Intuitive UI: We’ve designed a clean, tabbed interface that makes managing your settings a breeze. No clutter, no confusion.
Core Features
- Powerful Automatic Scheduling: Set a schedule to run every few minutes, hourly, or daily to republish a specific number of your oldest posts.
- Dynamic Post Type Support: Automatically finds and works with Posts, Pages, Products, and any other public custom post type registered on your site.
- SEO-Friendly Update Mode: Choose to update only the “Last Modified” date (recommended for SEO) or the original “Publish Date”.
- Granular Control: Select exactly which post types to include in the automatic schedule. Republish only Posts, or Posts and Products—the choice is yours.
- Advanced Republish Order: Choose to republish your oldest posts first (to revive forgotten content), your newest posts, or completely random posts.
- Manual Bulk Republisher: Need to refresh an entire category or post type at once? The manual tool with its live progress bar makes it simple and safe.
- Keyword Filtering: Finely tune your republishing jobs by only including or completely excluding posts that contain specific keywords.
- Permalink Cleanup Tool: Easily remove any numeric suffixes (e.g., -1234 ) that have been added to your permalinks with a single click.
- Search Engine Notifications: Automatically notifies Google (via Rank Math) and Bing after updating content to encourage faster re-indexing.