How to Dynamically Revive Old Posts That Are Getting Attention

When it comes to our content, most of us are focused on getting our new posts the most attention. Once in a while, your old posts can start getting more traffic again. If you have evergreen content, you can update their publish date to make them appear fresh. To get started, you need a function to track post traffic.

This code snippet simply keeps track of views per each post. You can use the following function to make the changes. Notice that we are choosing to ignore posts that are older than a specific number of days. You can also choose how many posts you want to revive.

There are other, more sophisticated plugins to revive old posts but this code is lightweight and gets the job done.