Title: Draft Concluder
Author: David Artiss
Published: <strong>9 de noviembre de 2020</strong>
Last modified: 2 de diciembre de 2025

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# Draft Concluder

 Por [David Artiss](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dartiss/)

[Descargar](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/draft-concluder.1.1.3.zip)

 * [Detalles](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/draft-concluder/#description)
 * [Opiniones](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/draft-concluder/#reviews)
 *  [Instalación](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/draft-concluder/#installation)
 * [Desarrollo](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/draft-concluder/#developers)

 [Soporte](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/draft-concluder/)

## Descripción

Based on [an idea by John Blackbourn](https://twitter.com/johnbillion/status/1314494422529331203),
and mentioned by [Post Status](https://poststatus.com/), 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.

 * Send emails out on a daily or weekly schedule and at a time that you’d prefer
 * Look for draft pages as well as posts, if you like. Or just pages, if that’s 
   what you want. We won’t judge
 * Target those drafts that were created more than a specific time period ago, or
   have not been updated for a while
 * Each user, who has drafts that then reminding about, will receive an email. No,
   they can’t unsubscribe from them
 * Each email will show the number of drafts, along with a reminder of each of them
 * 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)
 * Debug features to allow to verify what’s being sent

Oh, and, naturally, the code passes [WordPress](https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards)
and [WordPress VIP](https://github.com/Automattic/VIP-Coding-Standards) coding standards.

I’d like to thank [Caleb Burks](https://calebburks.com/) for the feedback he provided.
Also, the iconography is courtesy of the very talented [Janki Rathod](https://www.fiverr.com/jankirathore).

**Please visit the [Github page](https://github.com/dartiss/draft-concluder) for
the latest code development, planned enhancements and known issues**

### Mentions

Draft Concluder was mentioned in issue 421 of [the Post Status newsletter](https://poststatus.com/newsletter/)(
published 16th November 2020).

It was also mentioned in [edition 21 of the WP Weekly newsletter](https://thewpweekly.com/21/)(
published 23rd November 2020)

## Capturas

 * [[
 * Available options, available in Settings -> General

## Instalación

Draft Concluder can be found and installed via the Plugin menu within WordPress 
administration (Plugins -> Add New). Alternatively, it can be downloaded from WordPress.
org and installed manually…

 1. Upload the entire `draft-concluder` folder to your `wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress administration.

It’s now ready to go but, if you want to tweak further, head to Settings -> General.

## Preguntas frecuentes

### Why’s it called Draft Concluder?

Because it helps you find an end to those annoying drafts that sit around and never
get completed. And it’s a pun on “draft excluder”. Yes, I know – blame my SO, who
came up with the name.

### What does the “Status” on the Settings screen mean?

In Settings -> General -> Draft Concluder, you’ll see, under the title, a status–
this will tell you when it last ran and whether it was successful or not.

The success is dependent on whether any error was returned when sending out emails–
a failure would indicate a problem with `wp_mail` and will need further investigation.

### The email isn’t turning up at the time that it’s scheduled!

The internal WordPress scheduler is an interesting beast. It’s totally reliant on
someone visiting your site for it to trigger – so if you set it to 1am but nobody
visits until 8am then, yeah, you won’t get email until after 8am.

Thankfully, I thought of you when I wrote the plugin. As per the previous question,
there’s a status on the settings screen. Additionally, there are 2 shortcodes that
you can add to any post or page to help you out.

    ```
    [dc_now] - this will run the email generator and show, on screen, what would be sent if you were running it now.

    [dc_last_run] - this will show, on screen, what happened during the last scheduled run. So, if the status in the settings shows it ran, you can use this shortcode to display what was actually sent and to whom.
    ```

### Can I unsubscribe from the email that I’m sent?

Heck, no. That’s the beauty of this plugin.

### Can I just send the email to spam instead?

I wouldn’t do that. The email comes from the site’s account – marking it as spam
may also lead to all other site emails going the same way, including password resets
and important security information.

Look, if it means that much to you, maybe look to sorting out your drafts, yes?

### How can I prevent the plugin from being deactivated?

…said no-one. But seriously, you want to remove the temptation, right?

Crack open your site’s `wp-config.php` and add the following line of code…

    ```
    define( 'DO_NOT_DISABLE_MY_DRAFT_REMINDER', true );
    ```

And the deed is done – you can no longer disable the plugin (cue diabolical laughter).

### Do you support this plugin on forks of WordPress?

No. It was developed for WordPress and so forks remain unsupported. I have no intention
of developing and testing this on any other version.

## Reseñas

No hay reseñas para este plugin.

## Colaboradores y desarrolladores

Este software es de código abierto. Las siguientes personas han contribuido a este
plugin.

Colaboradores

 *   [ David Artiss ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dartiss/)

“Draft Concluder” ha sido traducido a 2 idiomas locales. Gracias a [los traductores](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/draft-concluder/contributors)
por sus contribuciones.

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### ¿Interesado en el desarrollo?

[Revisa el código](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/draft-concluder/),
echa un vistazo al [repositorio SVN](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/draft-concluder/)
o suscríbete al [registro de desarrollo](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/draft-concluder/)
por [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/draft-concluder/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Registro de cambios

I use semantic versioning, with the first release being 1.0.

#### 1.1.3

 * Enhancement: Code quality improvements – now abides by the WordPress rules for
   PHPCS
 * Enhancement: Changed the format of the date and time in the settings screen

#### 1.1.2

 * Bug: Corrected incorrect text domains – thanks to Alex Lion for identifying this.
 * Enhancement: I updated my PHPCS rulesets and, sure enough, those nerds had changed
   them. So I had some more changes to make to bring my code inline with the standards.
 * Enhancement: I’d split the code into 4 separate files and, yet, none of them 
   were particularly big. To make thing easier I’ve combined them back again.

#### 1.1.1

 * Enhancement: Added a word count to the draft information

#### 1.1

 * Enhancement: Making better use of `selected` command for my settings output (
   thanks to [Tom Nowell](https://tomjn.com/))
 * Enhancement: You can now choose any hour of the day for the email to be generated,
   not just select hours
 * Enhancement: Various improvements to plugin meta and this README
 * Enhancement: Improvements to email format (thanks to [Michelle Keefer](https://consultmk.com/))
 * Enhancement: When changing the hour that the email is generated, and you’ve chosen
   a daily run, it will be produced same day if the hour hasn’t already passed
 * Enhancement: Added next run time to the settings output
 * Enhancement: Improved internationalization
 * Bug: Shortcodes now correctly output (thanks to [Tom Nowell](https://tomjn.com/))

#### 1.0.1

 * Bug: In what must be the quickest time from initial release to first bug report,
   thanks to [JeanPaulH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djr/) for finding a
   stray comma!

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

## Plugin de la comunidad

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## Meta

 *  Versión **1.1.3**
 *  Última actualización **hace 5 meses**
 *  Instalaciones activas **Menos de 10**
 *  Versión de WordPress ** 4.6 o superior **
 *  Probado hasta **6.9.4**
 *  Versión de PHP ** 7.4 o superior **
 *  Idiomas
 * [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/draft-concluder/), [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/draft-concluder/),
   y [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/draft-concluder/).
 *  [Traducir a tu idioma](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/draft-concluder)
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   [reminder](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/reminder/)
 *  [Vista avanzada](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/draft-concluder/advanced/)

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## Colaboradores

 *   [ David Artiss ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dartiss/)

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