Old drafts sorted: finish them, schedule them or throw them away
Go through drafts that have sat untouched for months, see which are worth finishing, complete and schedule those, and bin the rest.
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Time
- about 30 min
List my draft posts that haven't changed since [June]. For each, tell me in one line what it's about, how finished it is, and whether it's still worth publishing. For the ones I pick, finish the text in my style, keeping what I already wrote, and give me a preview link. Schedule the finished ones for [Thursday mornings], one a week, and move the ones I reject to the trash.
Already connected?
If SAR is already in your AI app, this is enough:
Sort my drafts untouched since [month]: finish the good ones, schedule them, and bin the rest.
What happens
- The AI app lists your drafts and reads each one.
- It gives you a one-line verdict per draft and waits for your choices.
- Finishing a draft changes it at once, without an approval, because visitors can't see drafts. You get a preview link for each.
- Scheduling a post waits for your approval in SAR; so does moving a draft to the trash, from where it can be restored.
Approvals involved
Worked out from the tools this recipe uses.
wordpress_list_postsList posts or pagesNonewordpress_get_postGet a post or pageNonewordpress_update_postEdit a post or pageApproval once livewordpress_get_preview_linkPreview link of a draftNonewordpress_publish_postPublish a post or pageApprovalwordpress_trash_postMove a post or page to the trashApproval
What you get
A drafts folder with nothing forgotten in it, and a few finished posts on their way out.
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Try it on your own site
Install the plugin, add SAR to your AI app and paste the prompt. Free to start.