Manage Your Blog Post Ideas With This WordPress Plugin
I wrote this WordPress plug-in a few months ago because I was tired of using Google Docs and WordPress drafts to manage all the ideas I had for future posts or articles. This WordPress 2.5 compatible plugin, once activated, will create a “Post Ideas” menu item under the “Manage” admin area. From this area you can add, sort, edit and delete any article or post ideas you may have swirling around up in your head.
Post Ideas allows you to enter the working title of the post, some keywords you may wish to target, links you may be using for research and a priority number to help you determine how quickly it should be posted. There is also a “write now” feature which deletes the post idea and takes you to the WordPress “Write > Post” area with the title pre-populated with your working title. With this release WordPress also creates a link to the post title in the body of the post an unintended feature I can’t seem to get rid of.
I originally released this plug in at one of my other sites BlogToppings.com. I’ve decided to consolidate here, so, if you have any questions or comments feel free to start the conversation below. Happy Blogging.
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June 16th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
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[...] Post Ideas: At any given point I’ve got at least 20 or 30 ideas rolling around upstairs for a post, most times I forget them though by not writing it down. With post ideas I can again login to my backend and record them there for future references, including tags, urls, titles, etc. [Current Version - 2] [...]