David Artiss

<p>Based on <a href="https://twitter.com/johnbillion/status/1314494422529331203" rel="nofollow ugc">an idea by John Blackbourn</a>,  and mentioned by <a href="https://poststatus.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Post Status</a>, this plugin is designed to be a reminder to those who leave draft posts unloved. And, yes, all of John’s ideas are here, with more to boot.</p>
<ul>
<li>Send emails out on a daily or weekly schedule and at a time that you’d prefer</li>
<li>Look for draft pages as well as posts, if you like. Or just pages, if that’s what you want. We won’t judge</li>
<li>Target those drafts that were created more than a specific time period ago, or have not been updated for a while</li>
<li>Each user, who has drafts that then reminding about, will receive an email. No, they can’t unsubscribe from them</li>
<li>Each email will show the number of drafts, along with a reminder of each of them</li>
<li>Optional ability to prevent the plugin from being deactivated (allow you to avoid the temptation to do so rather than, you know, deal with the drafts)</li>
<li>Debug features to allow to verify what’s being sent</li>
</ul>
<p>Oh, and, naturally, the code passes <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress</a> and <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/VIP-Coding-Standards" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress VIP</a> coding standards.</p>
<p>I’d like to thank <a href="https://calebburks.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Caleb Burks</a> for the feedback he provided. Also, the iconography is courtesy of the very talented <a href="https://www.fiverr.com/jankirathore" rel="nofollow ugc">Janki Rathod</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Please visit the <a href="https://github.com/dartiss/draft-concluder" title="Github" rel="nofollow ugc">Github page</a> for the latest code development, planned enhancements and known issues</strong></p>
<h3>Mentions</h3>
<p>Draft Concluder was mentioned in issue 421 of <a href="https://poststatus.com/newsletter/" rel="nofollow ugc">the Post Status newsletter</a> (published 16th November 2020).</p>
<p>It was also mentioned in <a href="https://thewpweekly.com/21/" rel="nofollow ugc">edition 21 of the WP Weekly newsletter</a> (published 23rd November 2020)</p>


Draft Concluder

Email users that have outstanding drafts.

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<p>Publishes one draft post every X minutes. Includes logging, stats, and an admin dashboard with start/stop, manual publish, filter, and refresh controls.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong><br />
– Publish one draft post at a configurable interval.<br />
– Simple start/stop controls and manual publish button.<br />
– Activity log with timestamps, post titles, and permalinks.<br />
– Basic stats: total published and last published entry.<br />
– Works with selected post types.</p>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>Controlled Draft Publisher stores an activity log (<code>cdp_log</code>) in the WordPress database when logging is enabled. The log includes post IDs, titles, timestamps, permalinks, and post types for published drafts. No user data is collected or sent externally. Logs can be cleared or exported via the dashboard.</p>
<h3>Notes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Ensure your site meets the PHP and WordPress version requirements before installing.</li>
<li>Server cron or WP-Cron behaviour may vary on low-traffic sites; consider using a real cron if reliable timing is required.</li>
<li>Translation-ready: Includes <code>controlled-draft-publisher.pot</code> in the <code>languages/</code> folder for translators.</li>
</ul>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, or any later version, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</p>
<h3>License URI</h3>
<p>https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html</p>


Controlled Draft Publisher

Publishes one draft post every configurable interval, with logging and an admin dashboard.

Draft Concluder vs Controlled Draft Publisher