When John Blackbourn made a semi-tongue-in-cheek…

ByDan Knauss Posted on

When John Blackbourn made a semi-tongue-in-cheek suggestion for a plugin that will email you regularly about draft posts you haven’t published, David Artiss took him seriously and built a plugin that does exactly that. Draft Concluder (what a great name!) will send an email to every user who has outstanding drafts. 📝✉️

David says his work on this plugin led him so deep into WordPress, he’s probably the only person to know some of the things he learned. He is already planning his next project, to revisit one of his existing plugins and rewrite it. 👏

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