Completed the requested A-C follow-through for the WordPress draft cleanup lane.
A. Repaired the near-ready draft queue as far as it was safe to automate. The pass updated draft-only content and metadata, fixed stale internal links, corrected the QA false positive on the normal word insert, and adjusted link checking for HEAD/GET redirect quirks. No published WordPress post_content was changed.
B. Built merge packets for the 3 remaining cannibalization-risk drafts that were not safe one-to-one delete candidates:
C. Re-verified that the 7 direct-overlap drafts remain in WordPress Trash. They were not force-deleted.
Current WordPress draft/pending count: 59 total, 32 pages, 27 posts, 0 pending-review.
Readiness summary: 38 Final QA and deploy, 1 Final QA after outlink/image polish, 11 Build out before QA, 5 Cannibalization check, 4 Merge/delete duplicate draft.
Overlap tier summary: Tier 1 exact live duplicate 0, Tier 2 cannibalizes live content 3, Tier 3 heavy QA 17, Tier 4 near ready 39, Tier 5 publish-now 0.
Near-ready QA summary after repairs: 39 drafts checked, 352 unique links checked, 3 QA pass, 36 QA pass after inlink placement, 0 Needs edits before deployment.
Readiness workbook: /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Projects/outputs/wordpress-draft-readiness-2026-05-17/wordpress-draft-readiness-2026-05-17.xlsx
Overlap tiers workbook: /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Projects/outputs/wordpress-draft-readiness-2026-05-17/wordpress-draft-overlap-tiers-2026-05-17.xlsx
Near-ready QA workbook: /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Projects/outputs/wordpress-draft-readiness-2026-05-17/wordpress-near-ready-qa-2026-05-17.xlsx
Merge packets folder: /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Projects/outputs/wordpress-draft-readiness-2026-05-17/merge-packets/
Draft repair backups: /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Projects/admin/backups/wp-near-ready-qa-repair-20260517-214044 and /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Projects/admin/backups/wp-near-ready-qa-repair-pass5-20260517-221206.