Controlled Draft Publisher vs AutomatorWP – No-Code Workflow Automation, Integration & Webhooks Plugin, now with AI

AutomatorWP is a flexible, open-source automator plugin that connects your WordPress plugins, sites and apps together to build powerful workflows with ease. You can create “automations” linked to your WordPress activities and when any of them happen, you can make other things happen accordingly. Automate sales, marketing, administrative tasks, learning experiences and countless other processes to save time, eliminate repetitive work, and focus on what matters most. See how it works in less than 2 minutes! 👇 Use automations to connect your plugins Here are some automations samples to give you a quick idea of what you can build: When user purchases a WooCommerce product > Add a WP Fusion tag to the user When user joins a BuddyPress group > Enroll user in a LearnDash course Also, you can combine multiple triggers and actions to build advanced automations like this: When user creates a bbPress topic and completes a H5P content > Enroll user in a LifterLMS course, add to MemberPress membership and email user with the access instructions. The number of combinations and possibilities are unlimited! Webhooks to keep your site connected With Webhooks you can send and receive data from anywhere, connecting all your WordPress plugins with platforms like Zapier or Make. Even you can connect your plugins from different sites! Example: User purchases a product on Site A > Enroll user in a course on Site B Anything with support to webhooks or a Rest API can be connected with the Webhooks add-on and, in consequence, with your WordPress plugins! View Webhooks automations samples Features AutomatorWP is extremely powerful and infinitely extensible. Check out some of the built-in features: Own your data: AutomatorWP works entirely inside your WordPress, not as a SaaS or a credits-based platform with no artificial usage limits. Unlimited triggers and actions: Configure as many triggers and actions per automation as you want. Logged-in and anonymous automations: AutomatorWP can work for both, logged-in users and for not logged-in visitors. Scheduled and recurring automations: Automations to run actions on all or on a filtered group of users manually, on a specific date or on a recurring basis. Loop automations: Create automations that can loop all or a group of posts or users to process actions on them like remove inactive users or email administrators about pending posts. Filters: Filter any trigger or action with the conditions of your choice. Required number of times: Set the number of times required to complete a trigger like comment on a post 3 times. Sequential triggers: Force users to complete triggers in order to complete the automation. Completion limits: Limit automation’s maximum completion times per user and globally. Tags: Tags to pass dynamic information from triggers to actions (with support to user and post metas). AI Assistant included: Our AI assistant is ready to help you design, create and manage your automations, with the addition to execute any action available in AutomatorWP! Developer-friendly: AutomatorWP is extremely flexible with plenty of hooks to add custom features and functionalities. Powerful AI Assistant included! AutomatorWP includes a powerful AI Assistant designed to help you effortlessly design, create, and manage automations using natural language. Its features include: Build automations in seconds 📜 Describe what you want to automate and the Assistant creates the entire automation ready for you to review and activate! Example Prompts: New automation: when a user enrolls in "Course A", add to "Group A" When a user purchases "Product A", add the tag "Customer", award "Badge A" and send a welcome email Note: Yes, for a “welcome email” instruction, the Assistant composes the entire email for you! Run actions directly 🚀 The Assistant can run any action available in AutomatorWP, giving you thousands of possibilities! In addition, the Assistant logs every execution, allowing you see what has been executed, the parameters passed and the action(s) result(s). Example Prompts: Enroll John Doe on "Course A" and award "Badge A" Add Ruben Garcia to "Membership A" and change its role to "Contributor" Update existing automations ✏️ Made to help you save time, the Assistant can update existing automations effortlessly. Example Prompts: Add the actions award 10 points and send welcome email to "Automation A" Add a trigger for complete "Course A" to "Automation B" Note: This assistant uses the WP AI Connectors. Without a configured connector, it won’t be able to perform any tasks. Integrated with +200 WordPress plugins AutomatorWP works with different WordPress plugins, including: ActiveMember360 Advanced Ads Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) AffiliatePress AffiliateWP Amelia AnsPress ARForms ARMember Asgaros Forum Autonami Awesome Support BBForms bbPress Better Messages Blockli BookingPress Brizy BuddyBoss BuddyPress Caldera Forms Code Snippets Contact Form 7 Charitable DigiMember Divi Download Manager Easy Affiliate Easy Digital Downloads Elementor Eventin Everest Forms Favorites FluentBooking FluentCart FluentCRM Fluent Support Fluent Forms Formidable Forms Forminator GamiPress GeoDirectory Gravity Forms Gravity Kit Groundhogg H5P HappyForms iMember360 Invite Anyone Jetpack CRM JetEngine JetFormBuilder Kadence Blocks Kali Forms LearnDash LearnPress LifterLMS Mail Mint MailPoet Masteriyo LMS MasterStudy LMS MemberPress Meta Box MetForm Modern Events Calendar MyCred Newsletter Ninja Forms Paid Memberships Pro PeepSo Popup Maker Presto Player PrettyLinks Quiz and Survey Master Restrict Content Pro Sensei LMS ShortLinks Pro Simple Feature Requests SliceWP Studiocart SureCart SureMembers The Events Calendar Thrive Apprentice Thrive Cart Thrive Leads Thrive Ovation Thrive Quiz Builder Tutor LMS Ultimate Member Upsell Plugin WhishList Member weForms WooCommerce WooCommerce Shipstation WP All Import WP Booking Calendar WP Fusion WP Job Manager WP Polls WP PostRatings WP Simple Pay WP Ulike WP User Manager WPAdverts WPCode wpDiscuz WPForms WPLMS WS Form Integrated with AI Agents AutomatorWP connects with AI agents to create smarter workflows. We’re continuously working on adding more AI integrations. Anthropic (Claude) Google Gemini Mistral AI Open AI (ChatGPT) Integrated with external platforms AutomatorWP can work with external platforms, furthermore WordPress plugins, like: ActiveCampaign Airtable AWeber Bluesky Campaign Monitor ClickUp ConvertKit Facebook HubSpot Google Calendar Google Drive Google Sheets IFTTT Instagram Integrately Integromat KonnectzIT Mailchimp MailerLite Make Notion Twilio Twitter Typeform Zapier Zoom Powerful add-ons to extend AutomatorWP If you’re looking for something endorsed and maintained by the developers who built AutomatorWP, there are a plethora of premium add-ons, the most popular of which include: Webhooks: Send and receive data from webhooks to connect all your plugins with web services like Zapier or Integromat or even to connect different WordPress sites. Schedule Actions: Schedule any action to run after a time delay of your choice. Calculator: Perform mathematical calculations on tags like sums, subtractions, multiplications, divisions and even apply functions such as abs, sin, cos among others. Formatter: Apply different formats to tags like convert, replace or extract anything from strings, numbers or dates even remove the HTML from a content. Generator: Generate content like random strings, random numbers, emails even hashes and WordPress nonces. QR Code: Create QR codes from links or texts with different styles, formats and colors. Multimedia Content: New triggers based on multimedia content creation and interaction. Block Users: Block users and roles for being able to complete any automation of your choice. Button & Link: Launch any automation through buttons and links clicks. Restrict Content: Manage access to any post or page. Custom User Fields: Create new custom fields for WordPress users. CSV: Manage content from CSV files or Google Sheets spreadsheets. User Lists: Create, organize, and manage user lists . View all add-ons Included triggers, actions and filters AutomatorWP includes +600 triggers, actions and filters from +200 plugins & platforms for free, all of them listed here. More plugins from the AutomatorWP team If you like AutomatorWP, you will love our other plugins! GamiPress – Flexible gamification plugin to reward your users with points, achievements, badges & ranks based on their activity in your WordPress. ShortLinks Pro – Complete link management plugin that not only powers WordPress websites with shortened URLs, also empowers site owners to create clean, branded and unique affiliate links easily. BBForms – Code form plugin designed to help you build multipurpose forms in seconds!

Publishes draft posts automatically on a schedule. Includes per-post-type intervals, an optional publishing window (e.g. only publish 9am-6pm on weekdays), email notifications, logging, and an admin dashboard with start/stop, manual publish, filter, and refresh controls. Features: – Publish drafts at a configurable interval, globally or per post type. – Optional publishing window and weekend skip, so drafts never go out overnight or on weekends unless you want them to. – Optional email alert when a draft is published or when a publish attempt fails. – Simple start/stop controls and manual publish button. – “Next Up” preview on the dashboard shows exactly which drafts will publish next, in order, before it happens. – Per-post “Exclude this draft from auto-publish” option, for the odd draft you want to hold back by hand. – Activity log with timestamps, post titles, and permalinks, exportable to CSV. – Basic stats: total published, last published entry, 7-day activity chart. – Works with selected post types and categories. Privacy Policy Controlled Draft Publisher stores an activity log (cdp_log) in the WordPress database when logging is enabled. The log includes post IDs, titles, timestamps, permalinks, and post types for published drafts. If email notifications are enabled, publish summaries are sent to the configured notification address using WordPress’s built-in mail function. No user data is collected or sent externally. Logs can be cleared or exported via the dashboard. All plugin options are removed automatically when the plugin is deleted. Notes Ensure your site meets the PHP and WordPress version requirements before installing. Server cron or WP-Cron behaviour may vary on low-traffic sites; consider using a real cron if reliable timing is required. Translation-ready: Includes controlled-draft-publisher.pot in the languages/ folder for translators. License This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, or any later version, as published by the Free Software Foundation. License URI https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html