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Habit Creator

WordPress dashboard widget that detects multi-year posting patterns and nudges you to write the next installment. Works without AI; uses the WordPress 7.0 Connectors API + AI Client when available.

by Anne McCarthy · github.com/annezazu/habit-creator

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Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/annezazu/habit-creator/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
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Spots recurring patterns in your blogging history and nudges you to write the next installment.

Description

Habit Creator adds a dashboard widget that detects when you have written about the same topic, in the same tag/category, or used the same recurring phrase across multiple years. It surfaces upcoming "anniversary" patterns and lets you spin up a pre-populated draft with one click — automatically linking back to the previous post and carrying over its tags and categories.

How it works without AI

A daily cron job scans each author's published posts, buckets them by ISO week-of-year, and looks for signals that recur across two or more distinct years:

  • Shared tags
  • Shared categories
  • Shared 2-word title phrases (with stopwords filtered)

Each pattern is scored by years-of-recurrence and reader engagement (comment count). Patterns whose anniversary window is within the next three weeks are surfaced first. Results are cached in a user-scoped transient.

How it works with AI

If a connector with type === 'ai_provider' is registered (WordPress 7.0 Connectors API), Habit Creator uses the AI Client to:

  • Rewrite the nudge headline in a warmer, more personal voice
  • Generate a draft opening paragraph that frames the new post as a continuation

Detection is a soft check on wp_get_connectors() plus wp_ai_client_prompt(). If anything fails, the deterministic copy is used instead — the widget never breaks because of an AI outage or missing key.

Changelog

0.1.0

  • Initial release.