Title: Include draft posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Include draft posts

 *  [taoski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taoski/)
 * (@taoski)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-draft-posts/)
 * Hi.
    Great plugin – saves lots of time – thanks.
 * Would it be possible to add draft posts in there too?
 * I often post 4-5 posts at the same time, put them all in draft until I get my
   internal links sorted and images uploaded etc and it would be great to link to
   them too.
 * Thanks.
 * Tao.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-internal-link-search/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-internal-link-search/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Brady Vercher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradyvercher/)
 * (@bradyvercher)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-draft-posts/#post-3622543)
 * Hi taoski,
 * Thanks and glad you find the plugin useful. A permalink slug isn’t actually reserved
   for posts until they’re scheduled or published since they’re generated based 
   on the final title. Inserting links for draft posts would likely lead to broken
   links for most people.
 * It’s an interesting idea and if the permalink is manually set while in draft 
   state, it might work, so I’ll give it a little consideration next time I get 
   a chance to work on the plugin.
 * Thanks,
    Brady
 *  [andymiller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andymiller/)
 * (@andymiller)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-draft-posts/#post-3622806)
 * Hi Brady
 * I have a similar request. I use the private publication setting to prepare a 
   batch of related posts before making them public. It would e useful if I could
   cross-link between them ore easily. (But it’s not a big issue and in the meantime
   I can use the scheduled publication settings).
 * Thanks for a really useful plugin.
 *  Plugin Author [Brady Vercher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradyvercher/)
 * (@bradyvercher)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-draft-posts/#post-3622807)
 * Hi Andy,
 * Private posts reserve a slug for a permalink, so that should be doable. I pushed
   an update to GitHub that includes support if you’d like to download it from there:
   [https://github.com/bradyvercher/better-internal-link-search](https://github.com/bradyvercher/better-internal-link-search)
 * Cheers,
    Brady
 *  [andymiller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andymiller/)
 * (@andymiller)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-draft-posts/#post-3622808)
 * Wow, thank you.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-draft-posts/#post-3622808)
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