Timi Makinde

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 Bid farewell to outdated information as Auto Update Post Date takes care of the heavy lifting for you!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>.
<h4>Key Features:</h4>
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Scheduled Auto-Updates: 
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.
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SEO-Friendly Refresh: 
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.
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Customizable Refresh Rules: 
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.
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Preserve Original Publication Date: 
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.
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Honest Content Refresh: 
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.
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User-Friendly Interface: 
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.
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Supports Custom Post Types: 
Have custom post types on your site? Simply select your desired post type and what date you would like to update.
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<h4>Dependencies:</h4>
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>.

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

Jon Tejnung

This plugin will give you three alternatives for managing your WordPress updates:
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<li>Update automatically – This updates WordPress/themes/plugins automatically and sends an email to the site admin when an update has been performed.</li>
<li>Update automatically (no email) – Same as the first alternative, but without the email.</li>
<li>Inform about updates once a week – This will send an email to the admin once a week if there are anything that can be updated.</li>
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Notice that only plugins/themes that resides in the WordPress 
repository will be updated/informed about.
The plugin has not been tested and is not primarily made for multi site-installations.

Simple Automatic Updates

Activate automatic updates or weekly notifications for the site.

Auto Update Post Date vs Simple Automatic Updates