Republish Old Posts
Republish old posts automatically by resetting the date to the current date. Promote old posts to users that haven't seen them.
4.3(12 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, Republish Old Posts is a WordPress republish plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 60K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Downloads are up 44% this week. Top alternative: RevivePress – Keep your Old Content….
4.3/512 reviews
3.0K+active installs
60K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
** WARNING: DON’T USE THIS PLUGIN IF YOUR PERMALINKS INCLUDE DATES **
The Republish Old Posts plugin helps revive old posts by resetting the publish date to the current date. This will push old posts to your front page, the top of archive pages, and back into RSS feeds. Ideal for sites with a large repository of evergreen content.
Why would you want to do this? Here are a few reasons:
- New visitors to your site haven’t seen your old content. This will help them discover it.
- Old content won’t show up in date-based searches on search engines, but resetting the date can make them look fresh again.
- People like to share and link to new content and they determine that by looking at the publication date.
A pro version (a lifetime license is less than $15) with many additional…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
PRO VERSION – NOT WORKING
by slbz69·3 months ago
What a waste of money! This plugin was set (the pro version) to repost old post in category at 365 day, it didn’t work. Developer sounds like $15 plugin is too cheap and doesn’t need their dedicated attention in their Pro support page.
I love this plugin!
by Will Edwards·5 years ago
Does an excellent job for us!
Woo product
by tokofora·6 years ago
Hi’ I hope you support for woocomerce product.
Love it
by namder81·7 years ago
This plugin is easy to use and keeps my content looking fresh. Thanks!
Great, can it do pages too?
by tyealia·8 years ago·2 replies
This plugin is amazing did what i needed it to do exactly. I did have one question though, is there a way to have it work for pages aswell?
Download Trends
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.27
91.0%
Other
9.1%
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Changelog
1.27
- All Versions: Added nonce check for additional security against CSRF. Thanks to Skalucy of Patchtack.com. Synching version number with Pro version.
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