Description
Fresh Content Radar is your all-in-one dashboard to keep your website content healthy and SEO-friendly.
It scans your posts and pages for freshness, outdated dates, broken or unverifiable links, and missing image alts — then shows everything in a single interactive dashboard.
🔑 Key Features
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Live Dashboard
- Color-coded KPIs: Fresh / Needs refresh / Obsolete / Unknown.
- Clickable KPIs to instantly filter the table.
- Search bar and instant filters (AJAX).
- Table auto-refresh every 60 seconds.
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Smart Scan System
- Paged AJAX scan for large sites — no timeouts.
- Real-time progress bar with % and number of items.
- Option to automatically re-scan content on update.
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Content Analysis
- Detects outdated content based on configurable thresholds (fresh / stale / obsolete).
- Detects outdated years in text (e.g. “2019”) and alerts you.
- Counts images without alt attribute for accessibility/SEO.
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Link Checking
- Distinguishes broken links (red) from unverifiable links (yellow: timeout, WAF, 403).
- Configurable timeout and max redirects.
- Exclude domains (CSV) that you don’t want to scan.
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Bulk Actions
- Select multiple posts to move to trash or set to draft directly from the dashboard.
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CSV Export
- Export visible table columns to CSV with one click.
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Settings Interface
- Clean, tabbed settings page (Analysis / Links / Performance / Emails).
- Tooltips and clear explanations for each option.
- Modern UI with toggles and responsive design.
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Email Notifications
- Weekly recap email (Top 10 obsolete/to-refresh content).
- Configurable recipient address.
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Dashboard Widget
- Mini-widget in WP Dashboard with global score and quick link to full dashboard.
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Security & Performance
- Nonces on all AJAX calls.
- Proper sanitization/escaping of all inputs/outputs.
- Compatible with large sites thanks to paginated scans.
🛠️ Ideal For
- Content editors and SEO managers who need to keep websites up-to-date.
- Marketing teams that want a single source of truth for content health.
- Site owners with large content libraries who want to automate freshness checks.
Screenshots
Main dashboard with KPIs, filters, search and bulk actions. 
Progress bar during a scan.
Installation
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/or install via Plugins > Add New. - Activate the plugin.
- Go to Fresh Content in the WP admin menu.
- Click Scan all published posts to populate the dashboard.
FAQ
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Does this plugin change my content automatically?
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No. It only analyzes and gives you insights — you decide what to edit, trash, or keep.
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Will this slow down my site?
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No. Scans are paginated and run via AJAX on demand or after updates. No heavy background tasks.
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Can I use it on multisite?
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Yes. It works on multisite (per-site basis). Global network-wide tools are planned.
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What about WP-CLI?
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Yes! You can scan posts and pages directly from the command line:
wp fcradar scanYou can also filter by type or age, for example:
wp fcradar scan –post_type=page –older_than=365
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Contributors & Developers
“Fresh Content Radar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
0.2.0
- New AJAX-paged scanner with live progress bar.
- Instant filters (status + search).
- KPI badges clickable for quick filtering.
- Bulk actions (trash/draft).
- CSV export of visible columns.
- Tabbed settings UI with tooltips.
- Weekly email notification of top obsolete content.
- Improved security: nonces, sanitization, escaping.
- Better UX: auto-refresh, smooth loading overlay.
- Bugfix: duplicate KPIs after scan resolved.
0.1.0
- Initial release: basic scan and table.