Find and Refresh Outdated Content with AI
Surface your oldest, stalest posts and rework them in place, with the published date bumped only when the content has really changed.
Prerequisites
A connected site with a back catalog of posts, and a backup before large edits.
Help me find and refresh my outdated content. Look at posts older than [2 years, or published before a date I give you] and show me a shortlist, oldest first, with the title, the published date, and how long since each was last updated. Let me pick which ones to refresh. For each one I choose, read the post and propose an update: fix stale facts, years, prices, and examples, tighten the introduction, and note anything you are not sure about rather than guessing. Do not invent new claims or statistics. Show me the proposed changes before you save, and keep the visible edits easy to scan. Only bump the published date on a post when the content has genuinely been refreshed. Work through my picks a few at a time, and when you save each one, keep it as a draft or a pending revision so I can compare against the original before it goes live.
Already connected to WPVibe?
Skip the copy-paste. Just ask your AI for the “Find and Refresh Outdated Content with AI” recipe, or describe the task, and WPVibe runs these steps on your own site.
Some of your best posts are quietly slipping down the rankings because they still talk about last year’s tools, prices, and screenshots. You know a content refresh works better than writing something new, but finding which posts have gone stale, and then actually reworking them, is a project that never gets a slot on the calendar.
WPVibe finds your oldest posts by date and by how long it has been since they were touched, then hands you a shortlist to work through. For each one you pick, it reads the post, updates the facts and examples, tightens the intro, and can bump the published date once the content genuinely reflects the change. It shows you what it plans to change first and saves the result so you can review before it goes out.
Paste the prompt and say how far back to look. Work through the shortlist a few posts at a time rather than all at once, and read each rewrite, since the assistant can only see the post and its age, not your traffic or what actually changed in the world. One honest caution: only move the published date when you have really refreshed the content, since changing dates alone is a trick search engines see through.
Outcome
A shortlist of stale posts and refreshed drafts of the ones you chose, with facts, examples, and dates updated for review.