Ongoing content maintenance, turned into a clear audit queue
Content Guardian audits published WordPress content for freshness, stale references, orphaned pages, link health, accessibility signals and SEO hygiene. The analysis runs locally in WordPress and does not require an account, analytics service or external content-processing platform.
Free Core for everyday content health
- content freshness scoring and separate reviewed dates
- older-year and time-sensitive wording signals
- incoming and outgoing internal-link counts
- orphan content and broken-link detection
- external redirect checks and configurable link cache
- missing ALT attributes and H1-in-content signals
- meta-description and noindex signals for common SEO plugins
- prioritized health scores, filters and CSV export
- resumable browser audits, WP-CLI and Site Health integration
Premium adds deeper analysis
Content Guardian Premium is an add-on to the free Core. It integrates into the same Content Guardian administration screen rather than creating a separate product workflow.
- internal-link opportunities with relevance scoring and suggested anchor text
- redirect-chain and redirect-loop tracing
- canonical, sitemap, robots and HTTP indexability matrix
- weighted Content Decay Detector 2.0
- duplicate and near-duplicate detection
- persistent issue lifecycle with new, open, ignored, resolved and reopened states
Privacy and control
Post content is not sent to the plugin author. Link-health checks contact only URLs already present in the audited content when an administrator explicitly starts or resumes an audit. Content Guardian reports issues; it does not automatically rewrite posts.