Title: Better Recent Drafts
Author: Jon Lynch
Published: <strong>1 сар 14, 2012</strong>
Last modified: 12 сар 16, 2014

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/better-recent-drafts.svg)

# Better Recent Drafts

 By [Jon Lynch](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonlynch/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/better-recent-drafts.zip)

 * [Details](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/better-recent-drafts/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/better-recent-drafts/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/better-recent-drafts/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/better-recent-drafts/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-recent-drafts/)

## Description

Activate the plugin and all users who can edit other users posts (editors and admins)
will get a new widget on their dashboard showing all draft and pending posts, pages
and any custom post types. The standard ‘Recent Drafts’ widget is disabled.

This makes no changes for subscribers, contributors and authors.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The better recent drafts widget

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Go to the Plugins page in the admin area, search for `Better Recent Drafts` and
    install it.
 2. _Or_ Extract `better-recent-drafts.zip` in the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
    This will create a subfolder called `better-recent-drafts` containing the plugin
    files.
 3. Activate the `Better Recent Drafts` through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  Where are the options?

There are no options at the moment. Just activate the plugin and all users who can
edit others posts (editors and admins) will get a new widget on their dashboard 
showing all draft and pending posts, pages and any custom post types.

  Where to report bugs or ask for support?

At the [plugin page](http://www.jonlynch.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/better-recent-drafts/).

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works well with latest WP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-well-with-latest-wp/)󠁿

 [neville](https://profiles.wordpress.org/neville/) 8 сар 23, 2019

I’ve been using this plugin since it came out some 5 years ago. Today I was looking
to see if there is an update, and there isn’t. But it works fine with every version
of WordPress I’ve had on my site, currently on 5.2.2, so I’ll continue using it.

 [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-recent-drafts/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Better Recent Drafts” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Jon Lynch ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonlynch/)

[Translate “Better Recent Drafts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/better-recent-drafts)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/better-recent-drafts/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/better-recent-drafts/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/better-recent-drafts/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/better-recent-drafts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.1

Inital version with no options

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1**
 *  Last updated **11 жил ago**
 *  Active installations **30+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.1.42**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-recent-drafts/)
 * Tags
 * [dashboard](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard/)[drafts](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/drafts/)
   [pending](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pending/)[widget](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/better-recent-drafts/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  1 5-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-recent-drafts/reviews/?filter=5)
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[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-recent-drafts/reviews/#new-post)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Jon Lynch ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonlynch/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-recent-drafts/)