If you're upgrading from a previous release of Draft List (i.e. pre version 2.5) please check out the FAQ - a number of changes have been made in this release that you need to be aware of
Draft List allows you to both manage your draft and scheduled posts more easily but also to promote them by showing them on your site via shortcode or widget - use it to show your visitors what's "coming soon" or as a great SEO tool.
How easy is it display a list of draft posts? Here's an example of how you could use it in a post or page...
[drafts limit=5 type=post order=ma scheduled=no template='{{ul}}{{[draft}} {{icon}}']
This would display a list of up to 5 draft posts in ascending modified date sequence, with an icon displayed to the right of each if the draft is scheduled.
Key features include...
- Both widgets and shortcodes are available for you to show off your up-coming content
- Output is highly configurable - create your own look by using a template, identify scheduled posts with an icon, sequence the results in various ways and even narrow down the results to a specific timeframe
- Click on any of the drafts posts listed to edit them
- A meta box in the editor screen allows you to omit individual posts from any list outputs
- Tested up to PHP 8.2
- Fully complies with WordPress coding standards
- Compliant with the stronger WordPress VIP coding standards, as well as compatibility with their platform
- Community plugin - visit the Github page to get involved with the latest code development, request enhancements and report issues
Iconography is courtesy of the very talented
Janki Rathod.
This plugin can be found and installed via the Plugin menu within WP Admin (Plugins -> Add New). Alternatively, it can be downloaded from
WordPress.org and installed manually...
- Upload the entire unzipped plugin folder to your
wp-content/plugins/ directory, either from WP Admin (Plugins -> Add New), your favorite FTP client or any other file manager
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WP Admin (Plugins -> Installed Plugins)
I use semantic versioning, with the first release being 1.0.
2.6
- Enhancements: Numerous code quality improvements. So many, this is a major release bump as so much of the code has changed. No new features, though
2.5.2
- Bug: I wasn't setting an initial value for $code. My bad. Now resolved. Thanks to Wiktor Jędrzejczak for spotting that.
- Enhancement: I've made a number of changes to ensure the plugin abides by PHPCS standards for both WordPress and WordPress VIP. Secure and Performant are my middle names. They're not really. I don't actually have so, theoretically, I could use these.
- Enhancement: For the default clock icon, I'm now using a built-in Dashicon SVG. However, you can override for your own image in the usual way.
2.5.1
- Bug: Fixed a bug (an extra comma) that impacts users on a particular version of PHP
2.5
- Enhancement: Total re-write of the post retrieval code
- Enhancement: Brought code up to PHPCS coding standards - hardly a line has been untouched
- Maintenance: Removed the menu changes (links to draft posts)
- Maintenance: Removed Caching
- Maintenance: Rename, concatenation and general shuffle around of the various plugin files
- Maintenance: Updates to the various plugin meta
- Bug: Resolved inconsistencies between
pending and scheduled parameters, where one accepting boolean and yes/no and, well, the other didn't
- Bug: Fixed issue where default values were not being loaded when a widget was being displayed without settings being changed
- Bug: Fixed a bunch of existing bugs, including various widget issues
2.4
- Enhancement: New option to include pending posts in lists
- Enhancement: New option to limit the posts listed to those with a minimum number of words
- Enhancement: Now using a time constant for the caching
- Enhancement: Added Github links to the plugin meta
- Enhancement: Double braces are the new template standard!
- Enhancement: Renamed 'Your Drafts' to the more appropriate 'My Drafts'
- Maintenance: Added selective refresh support to the widget
- Bug: Fixed an
undefined constant warning
- Bug: Improved the padding around the draft count in the admin menu
2.3.3
- Maintenance: The README has had a re-write and the image assets have been replaced. Shiny!
- Maintenance: Minimum WordPress requirement for this plugin is now 4.6, which means various version checks and language files have now been removed. New!
- Maintenance: My site moved some time ago but links in the plugin and the README were still directed to the old one. Changed!
- Maintenance: The shortcake code is called whether in admin or frontend because, well, it makes no difference. Plum!
- Bug: Corrected spelling mistake. Sad trombone!
2.3.2
- Maintenance: Updated branding, inc. adding donation links
2.3.1
- Enhancement: Draft pages shortcuts only appear if the user can edit pages
- Enhancement: Only show the user's drafts if it's different to the total number (otherwise, if a site has only one author, they will get two links when only one is required)
2.3
- Enhancement: Quick links added to admin menu for any draft posts. Will show links for both all drafts and drafts for the current user
- Maintenance: Updated branding
- Maintenance: Removed unnecessary
-adl prefix from file names
- Maintenance: Stopped hardcoding the plugin folder name in includes. Naughty boy
- Maintenance: Replaced
wp_plugin_url with the nicerer plugins_url
- Maintenance: Replaced the deprecated
attribute_escape with esc_attr in the widget code
- Maintenance: Merged the widget code so it's all in one handy file
- Maintenance: Sanitized the data being sloshed about by the meta box option
- Maintenance: Updated the clock icon to a material design version
2.2.6
- Maintenance: Added a domain path
- Maintenance: Removed deprecated functionality
- Bug: Fixed the categories tag
- Bug: Solved a PHP bug
2.2.5
- Maintenance: Added a text domain
2.2.4
- Bug: I've just noticed that if you use the editor box to hide the post from draft list you can't switch it back off again. Untick the box, save and it's ticked again. Doh. Why did nobody notice this before? It's now fixed though.
2.2.3
- Maintenance: Resolved widget issues with version 4.3 of WordPress
2.2.2
- Maintenance: Updated support forum link
2.2.1
- Bug: Removed some debug output
2.2
- Maintenance: Updated clock icon
- Enhancement: Added
category and categories template tags
2.1
- Maintenance: Moved default scheduled icon to its own folder
- Enhancement: Added internationalization
2.0.2
- Maintenance: Removed dashboard widget
2.0.1
- Bug: Fix caching problem that prevents edit links from working correctly
2.0
- Maintenance: Renamed plugin and brought program coding standards up-to-date
- Enhancement: Added new template system, allowing better control over output
- Enhancement: Option to display modified and/or created date
- Enhancement: Option to display word and/or character count
- Enhancement: Draft posts/pages with no title are no longer displayed
- Enhancement: Can now sort output by date created as well as the date modified
- Enhancement: Meta box added to editor to allow post/page to be excluded from list
- Enhancement: Output is now cached (and cache times are adjustable)
- Enhancement: User can now limit time period over which drafts will be displayed
- Enhancement: Added validation of the passed parameters
- Enhancement: New widget option added
- Enhancement: Added improved clock image
- Bug: Alternative icon folder option now works
1.6
- Enhancement: Draft titles now have links to their edit page if the current user is allowed to edit them
1.5
- Maintenance: Code tidy
- Enhancement: Added option to show post/page author
- Enhancement: Added version details to code output
- Enhancement: Added shortcode option
1.4
- Enhancement: Added icon for scheduled posts (which can be modified and switched off, if required)
1.3
- Enhancement: Date order now displays according to date of last modification
1.2
- Enhancement: Now displays scheduled posts as well
- Enhancement: Added new parameter to suppress scheduled posts, if required
- Bug: Fixed bug in limit default
1.1
- Maintenance: With the release of WP 3.0 different post types are possible and these can get mixed in with the results (e.g. menu items, etc). Changed the code to restrict output to pages and posts only
1.0