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Unstale your content

The free WordPress plugin that researches, fact-checks and rewrites your old posts, then republishes them without touching your URLs. Your own AI key, no credits, no quota.

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  • Built for WordPress
  • Your API keys, never ours
  • No credits, ever
Before Example paragraph

Building backlinks is very important for SEO. It helps your website get more traffic and rank higher in search engines. There are many ways to build backlinks, such as guest posting, directory submissions, and broken link building. You should focus on getting backlinks from high quality websites.

After Rewritten at Balanced

Backlinks remain one of the strongest ranking signals in Google's algorithm. Quality links from relevant, authoritative sites can increase organic traffic and improve keyword rankings. Effective strategies include digital PR, guest contributions, linkable assets, and reclaiming broken links. Focus on relevance and E-E-A-T over quantity.

1,200 words · 10 searches · 188,664 in / 20,328 out · $0.68 est.

Article length 1,200 words
Input tokens 188,664
Output tokens 20,328
Web searches 10
Est. cost / refresh $0.68

Example estimate: one Balanced refresh on Claude Sonnet 5 at intro pricing, through 2026-08-31 ($0.97 at standard rates, $0.58 on Gemini 3.6 Flash). Token counts are worst-case caps calibrated on real pipeline runs on 2026-07-11. Your provider bills actual usage. Unstale never marks up your API spend.

One slider, four levels

How far the rewrite goes is your call, article by article. Every level fact-checks, links and republishes safely. The higher ones take more editorial liberty with your copy.

  1. 01

    Minimal

    Free

    Typos, fact-check of figures and dates, internal links, em dashes removed, safe republish. Your structure and tone are untouched.

  2. 02

    Balanced

    Free

    Everything in Minimal plus live web research, SEO essentials, optimised metas, JSON-LD, key-takeaway boxes and a readability pass.

  3. 03

    Strong

    Pro

    Tighter copy written for the persona, every secondary query covered, TL;DR at the top, CTAs to your products, quiz when relevant.

  4. 04

    Maximal

    Pro

    Full rewrite from the best available sources, first-person E-E-A-T signals, built to outrank what currently sits above you.

See exactly what each level changes

What happens when you hit refresh

  1. 01

    Analyse

    Main keyword, language, and the products or services the article mentions.

  2. 02

    Research and fact-check

    Live web search for intent, format and gaps, then verification of every figure, price and date against official sources.

  3. 03

    Rewrite

    Section by section at the level you picked, with your voice and structure as the baseline.

  4. 04

    Enrich

    Metas, JSON-LD, takeaway boxes, TL;DR and CTAs, depending on the level.

  5. 05

    Link

    Up to 10 internal links to your own published content, varied anchors, never forced.

  6. 06

    Review and publish

    Side-by-side diff in the queue. You approve. URL, slug and revision history stay intact.

Every step is a separate background job, so a long article can never time out. The cost estimate is shown before the run and the real cost is logged after it.

Zero credits, ever

The plugin is free and runs real AI, batches included. Pro unlocks the two deepest levels, scheduling and per-category rules, for a flat yearly fee. No plan meters your rewrites.

Founder lifetime licences are available during the launch window. Full pricing and the 14-day guarantee.

Questions

What does Unstale actually do?

It takes a published WordPress post that has gone stale, researches the topic on the live web, fact-checks the figures and dates in it, rewrites it at the level you choose, adds internal links and metas, and republishes it without changing the URL. You approve every change from a side-by-side diff first.

Is the free plugin actually free, or is it a trial?

It is free and it runs real AI. The Minimal and Balanced levels, live web research, fact-checking, the review queue, SEO-safe republishing and the content health screen with its 50-post batches are all in the free plugin on wordpress.org. Unstale Pro adds the Strong and Maximal levels, scheduled automation, and bulk refresh straight from the Posts list at any level, 100 at a time.

Why is there no credit system?

Because you pay the AI provider directly with your own key. Credits exist so a vendor can resell you tokens at a markup; Unstale sells a licence instead, so no plan meters how many articles you refresh.

Does my content go through your servers?

No. Your WordPress talks to the AI provider you connected, directly. The only request to unstale.ai is the public model catalogue, which carries no content and no personal data. Details in the docs.

Pick your stalest post, run one refresh on the free plugin and read the diff. That is the whole evaluation.

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