David Artiss

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.
<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>
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.
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>.
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
<h3>Mentions</h3>
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).
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)

Draft Concluder

Email users that have outstanding drafts.

mrwweb

This plugin is useful for people who regularly use all or most of the post statuses with Posts, Pages, or Custom Post Types. Post Status Menu Items does the following:
<ol>
<li>Show each post status and number of posts with that status (e.g. “Drafts (7)”) in each post type’s admin menu.</li>
<li>Show the number of Posts with each post status in the “Right Now” / “At a Glance” admin Dashboard Widget.</li>
<li>Show post status icons with each status at the top of admin post list pages.</li>
</ol>
Options give control over which post statuses are displayed and in which menus those statuses are displayed. Post statuses in the “Right Now” / “At a Glance” admin Dashboard widget can also be turned off.
Screenshots of all features and settings are available on <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-status-menu-items/screenshots/" rel="ugc">the Screenshots page</a>.
Notes
<ul>
<li>Plugin settings available on Settings > Writing.</li>
<li>Statuses with 0 posts are never displayed.</li>
<li>Posts are the only post type for which the post status menu items are enabled by default.</li>
</ul>
This plugin works with custom statuses created by <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/edit-flow/" rel="ugc">Edit Flow</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/archived-post-status/" rel="ugc">Archived Post Status</a>, <a href="http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/synchronized-json/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Custom Field PRO “Sync Available” status</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-page-ordering/" rel="ugc">Simple Page Ordering</a>, and <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/register_post_status" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>register_post_status()</code></a>.
<h4>Other Plugins by MRWweb</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/feature-a-page-widget/" rel="ugc">Feature a Page Widget</a> – Shows a summary of any Page in any sidebar.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mrw-web-design-simple-tinymce/" rel="ugc">MRW Web Design Simple TinyMCE</a> – A compact page editor to encourage good formatting.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type-archive-descriptions/" rel="ugc">Post Type Archive Description</a> – Enables an editable description for a post type to display at the top of the post type archive page.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/hawaiian-characters/" rel="ugc">Hawaiian Characters</a> – Adds the correct characters with diacriticals to the WordPress editor Character Map for Hawaiian</li>
</ul>

Post Status Menu Items

Adds post status links–e.g. "Draft" (7)–to post type admin menus and a few other nice goodies.

Draft Concluder vs Post Status Menu Items