RefreshRank
Section 3 · Refresh system
The AI proposes, you decide, WordPress remembers. Nothing is ever applied without your approval.
3.1The five rewrite tasks
Clicking Rewrite on a queue row sends that post's title, meta description, and content (up to 30KB) to the RefreshRank service, along with the page's top search queries, which runs five focused tasks:
| Task | What it proposes |
|---|---|
| Title | A higher click-through title, ≤ 60 characters, working the primary query in naturally. |
| Meta | A meta description ≤ 155 characters with a clear value proposition. |
| Intro | An answer-first introduction that addresses the primary query in the first sentences, replacing the current first paragraph. |
| FAQ | 3-5 question/answer pairs, appended to the end of the post. |
| Dates | Find/replace pairs for stale years (historical facts are left alone). |
Generation runs through the RefreshRank service on a frontier OpenAI model (routed via OpenRouter, with routing pinned to OpenAI). You are never billed per token - rewrites only count against your plan's monthly quota. A full five-task job typically finishes in under a minute; the button shows your queue position and an ETA while you wait, and you can leave the page and come back.
3.2The review diff
When the job finishes, a review modal shows every proposal side by side: the current value in red, the proposed value in green. Read all of it - the AI is a careful drafter, but you are the editor. If anything is off, click Cancel and nothing happens at all.
3.3Approve & apply
Clicking Approve & apply writes the changes to the post on your own server:
- Date fixes are applied inside the content, then the new intro replaces the first paragraph, then the FAQ is appended.
- The new meta description is written to Yoast SEO and Rank Math fields when those plugins are active, and always to RefreshRank's own field as a fallback.
- The previous state is preserved: if the post had no revision history, RefreshRank snapshots the original first, so the pre-AI version is always recoverable.
3.4Rolling back
Applied changes are ordinary WordPress revisions. Open the post in the editor, click Revisions, and restore any earlier version - including the pre-refresh original. This works with WordPress's built-in tools; there is no RefreshRank-specific lock-in.