Stale High-Traffic Posts, WordPress

Stale High-Traffic Posts for WordPress. Tracked in the Vortex IQ Nerve Centre — how to read it, why it matters, and how to act on it.

Metrics type: Key Metrics • Category: Cross-Platform: Content to Commerce

Stale High-Traffic Posts as reported by the WordPress integration.

At a glance

Stale High-Traffic Posts is a cross-platform: content to commerce metric tracked from WordPress data. It surfaces operational signal so you can spot regressions, opportunities, and structural patterns. Cross-reference the sibling cards below for the full diagnostic picture. This is a cross-platform card: it joins WordPress to a sibling connector to surface insight neither shows alone. Gated: renders when — Jetpack Stats active OR sibling analytics connector connected.

What it counts	Stale High-Traffic Posts as reported by the WordPress integration.
Sample type	Backend API data from WordPress, refreshed on the standard data refresh.
Why it matters	The metric appears in the Cross-Platform: Content to Commerce category and complements the sibling cards listed below. Track movement over time to identify regressions or opportunities.
Reading the value	Compare the current period to the prior period to read direction. Cross-reference siblings to triangulate cause.
Format	mixed
Time window	90D
Alert trigger	>0 high-traffic posts not updated in 12mo
Sentiment key	—
Roles	owner, marketing

Calculation

Calculated automatically from your WordPress data on the standard refresh. See the At a glance summary for what it tracks and the worked example below for a typical reading.

Worked example

A representative reading of Stale High-Traffic Posts for a typical WordPress account. The card reports the current value alongside a comparison against the previous period — direction matters. When it moves outside the expected range, cross-reference the siblings below to find the cause; use Vortex Mind to trace upstream causes and Ask Viq for natural-language exploration.

Sibling cards merchants should reference together

Card	Why merchants reach for it
wp_xc_blog_attributed_sessions	Cross-Platform: Content to Commerce sibling: Blog-Attributed Sessions.
wp_xc_blog_attributed_revenue	Cross-Platform: Content to Commerce sibling: Blog-Attributed Revenue.
wp_xc_top_converting_content	Cross-Platform: Content to Commerce sibling: Top Converting Content.

Reconciling against the vendor’s own dashboard

Where to look in WordPress’s own dashboard: find this metric (or its components) under the relevant report/section. Confirm the period boundaries and any filters match the Vortex IQ profile to reconcile cleanly. The Vortex IQ value may legitimately differ due to period definition, time zone, sampling, or how the vendor buckets the underlying records.