When you need to update your blog on a regular basis, you also need a good way to keep track of your different post ideas. Some people choose to collect these ideas on a notepad, either digital or paper-based, but these can be easily misplaced and forgotten. You could set up a series of “drafts” in WordPress, but those can get buried too.

The Post Ideas + WordPress plugin was recently highlighted on Blogging Tips as a better way to organize your post ideas. It’s not the fanciest WordPress plugin, but it does offer a very valuable functionality.

In short, it creates two widgets on the main WordPress dashboard. With one widget, you can quickly jot down your post idea for later writing. With these post ideas, the plugin provides fields for the title, a description, tags, links, and priority (1-99). The other widget allows you to write a post based on one of these ideas.

When you do so, the post idea “draft” is automatically deleted and a new “write post” webpage is opened for you to start writing. The title field is prepopulated with the title you defined in the post idea, but the tags, links, and description do not automatically carry over. Hopefully, this will be addressed in a future update.

For now, check out Post Ideas + by Matt Hobbs in the WordPress Plugin Directory.