Timi Makinde

<p>Keep your WordPress content evergreen with Auto Update Post Date – a simple WP plugin designed to effortlessly update your posts, boost SEO, and maintain credibility with your audience. Bid farewell to outdated information as Auto Update Post Date takes care of the heavy lifting for you! The plugin is completely FREE and open source so feel free to leave feature requests or contribute on <a href="https://github.com/git-temak/auto-update-post-date" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>
<h4>Key Features:</h4>
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<p>Scheduled Auto-Updates:<br />
Set it and forget it! Auto Update Post Date allows you to schedule automatic updates for your posts at predefined intervals. Choose daily, weekly, or custom intervals to keep your content relevant without any manual effort.</p>
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<p>SEO-Friendly Refresh:<br />
Stay ahead in search engine rankings by signaling freshness. Auto Update Post Date ensures search engines recognize your content as current, potentially boosting your visibility and organic traffic.</p>
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<p>Customizable Refresh Rules:<br />
Tailor the plugin to fit your content strategy. Define rules based on post categories, tags, or specific criteria to control which posts receive automatic updates. You have the flexibility to prioritize the most critical content.</p>
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<p>Preserve Original Publication Date:<br />
Maintain transparency with your audience by preserving the original publication date while updating the post behind the scenes. This feature helps build trust with your readers.</p>
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<p>Honest Content Refresh:<br />
Build credibility and trust with your audience by periodically updating your content. Auto Update Post Date encourages users to add value and relevancy to their posts over time, ensuring a trustworthy and reliable source of information.</p>
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<p>User-Friendly Interface:<br />
The plugin settings page makes it easy to set up, manage, and monitor your auto-update settings. Even if you’re new to WordPress plugins, Auto Update Post Date simplifies the process for you.</p>
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<p>Supports Custom Post Types:<br />
Have custom post types on your site? Simply select your desired post type and what date you would like to update.</p>
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<h4>Dependencies:</h4>
<p>This plugin uses a jQuery Date and Time Picker from <a href="https://xdsoft.net/jqplugins/datetimepicker/" rel="nofollow ugc">xdsoft</a>, full uncompressed version of the minified JS and CSS can be found on the <a href="https://github.com/xdan/datetimepicker/tree/master" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Repo</a>.</p>


Auto Update Post Date

Keep your WordPress content evergreen with Auto Update Post Date – a FREE simple WP plugin designed to effortlessly update your posts and boost SEO

Ali Irani

<p>When you want to save a post, this plugin search for image urls which exists in post and automatically upload and import external images to the WordPress upload directory and add images to the media library and then replace new image urls with old urls.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
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<li>Automatically find images in posts and save them to the your server and wp media library</li>
<li>Update posts with new image urls in your server</li>
<li>Add images saved by plugin to the WordPress media library</li>
<li>Select custom post types for excluding auto upload images</li>
<li>Choose exclude domain to save images from this domain address</li>
<li>Choose custom your base url for images</li>
<li>Choose custom images file name with patterns</li>
<li>Choose custom image alt name with patterns</li>
<li>Choose max width and height for images uploaded</li>
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<h4>Translators</h4>
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<li>English</li>
<li>Persian (fa_IR) – <a href="https://irani.im" rel="nofollow ugc">Ali Irani</a></li>
<li>Español (es) – <a href="https://github.com/diegoh" rel="nofollow ugc">Diego Herrera</a></li>
<li>Russion (ru_RU) – <a href="https://github.com/rad96" rel="nofollow ugc">Артём Рябков</a></li>
<li>German (de_DE) – <a href="https://github.com/tillz" rel="nofollow ugc">Till Zimmermann</a></li>
<li>French (fr_FR) – <a href="https://github.com/Malaiac" rel="nofollow ugc">Malaiac</a></li>
<li>Korean (ko_KR) – <a href="https://github.com/luvrei" rel="nofollow ugc">Shodan</a></li>
<li>Italian (it_IT) – Patryk Chmura</li>
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<h4>Links</h4>
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<li><a href="https://irani.im/wp-auto-upload-images.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Official Plugin Page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/airani/wp-auto-upload" rel="nofollow ugc">Github Repository</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/airani/wp-auto-upload/issues/new" rel="nofollow ugc">Report Issues</a></li>
<li><a href="https://irani.im/wp-auto-upload-images.html#donate" rel="nofollow ugc">Make a Donation</a></li>
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Auto Upload Images

I came across this plugin via a tutorial on WP Beginner on how to import non-local images.

I was struggling with this as I needed to copy Block Editor content from one site to another. However, when you do this, the images still reference the old site.

With this plugin, you install it, and simply "update" the post. I recommend doing this from the bulk-edit screen. Just do a "Quick Edit" and update.

Like magic, all the non-local images in the post are brought over into the media library and your post is updated with the correct local links.

This is such a huge time-saver because I could not find a "native" way to do this, and it would've resulted in me having to basically download and re-upload the images.

Kudos to the plugin author. This plugin is fantastic. And for those wondering, it still works with WordPress 6.0.

This plugin is an amazing time-saver


Does one thing and does it well, great plugin


Great plugin

goood


After doing a long import of entries, it updates the images without any problem.


Still works perfect


The plugin still works as at Feb 17, 2025 and please do not leave it ACTIVE while doing XML import either via CLI or wp import plugin, except that is what you want.


Still working as at 17/02/2025

Automatically detect external images in the post content and import images to your site then adding to the media library and replace image urls.

Auto Update Post Date vs Auto Upload Images