Dragon Content Decay

Connects to Google Analytics 4 and finds the posts losing traffic — so you refresh them before the rankings go.

Getting started

1. Tools → Content Decay → Settings → Connect Google Analytics. The plugin requests read-only Analytics access.
2. Pick this site's GA4 property.
3. The first scan compares recent traffic against your baseline per post and classifies each as Decaying, Stable, or Growing.

Reading the dashboard

Decaying posts are your refresh queue: each row shows the traffic trend and links straight to the editor. Prioritise the ones with the steepest decline and the most historical traffic — those are recoverable rankings.

Data & privacy

OAuth tokens are stored encrypted in your database; traffic data is fetched from your own GA4 property and cached locally. Nothing is shared with anyone. Uninstall keeps data by default (wp option update dragoncontentdecay_delete_data_on_uninstall 1 to opt into deletion).

Troubleshooting

• "Connect" fails after approving — check the property picker: the Google account must have access to the GA4 property for this domain.
• Numbers look different from GA4's UI — the plugin reads sessions per page path; GA4's UI often shows filtered/modelled views.