Editorial Workflow Manager vs Pre-Publish Checklist

Editorial Workflow Manager adds an editorial checklist to the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg) so your team can follow a consistent pre-publish checklist every time you publish. It’s built for content teams, agencies, and editors who want a lightweight publishing checklist workflow inside the editor — with clear “ready vs incomplete” feedback — without hard publish blocking. This plugin does not output anything on the front end. What you can do Create reusable checklist templates (required + optional items). Assign different editorial checklists to different post types. Track per-post checklist progress in the editor sidebar. See readiness and progress in the post list table, sidebar, post status panel, and pre-publish panel. Typical use cases Blog posts: SEO checks, featured image, categories/tags, internal links, fact check. News/Editorial: legal review, source confirmation, editor sign-off checklist. Agencies: client approvals checklist, accessibility checks, brand requirements. Teams: consistent publishing workflow across authors and editors. Key features Accessible workflows – contextual labels, live status announcements, visible focus states, and keyboard-safe template controls. Template duplication – clone checklist templates and customize the copy. Curated starter templates – includes Blog SEO, News Fact-Check, Accessibility Review, and Client Approval templates. Checklist templates – manage reusable checklists as a custom post type. Template editor (row-based UI) – add, remove, reorder items; mark each item Required or Optional. Required vs Optional items – readiness is based on required items only. Helper text + reference links – add plain guidance text and an optional reference URL to each checklist item. Per-post checklist state – each post/page stores its own checklist progress. Gutenberg / Block Editor sidebar – “Editorial Checklist” panel inside the editor. Readiness + progress indicators Sidebar summary with Ready / Incomplete and required progress wp-admin post list Readiness column for mapped post types Post Status panel summary while editing Non-blocking pre-publish warning when required items are missing Different checklist per post type – assign templates in Settings. Curated starter templates included on activation and upgrade. Fresh-install quickstart wizard – choose post types, assign starter templates, and jump straight into the editor. Lightweight editor tour – auto-open the checklist sidebar once and explain required-item readiness. Backward compatible upgrades – legacy templates still work and upgrade to UUID-based v2 items when saved. Getting started Activate the plugin and complete the Quickstart wizard. Choose the post types where editorial checklists should appear. Confirm the starter template mappings, then open the editor. Follow the one-time sidebar tour in the block editor. Complete checklist items and watch the readiness/progress summary update. Adjust mappings later in Settings → Editorial Workflow or edit templates in Checklist Templates.

Easiest way to make sure your page or post is ready to go live Is the fear of publishing an incomplete post haunting you already? Do you get worried about tasks like adding a featured image, updating the permalink, etc. just when you are about to click the publish button? All of this is handled with an easy to use Pre-Publish Checklist plugin that lets you create a checklist you wish to maintain for every post type on your website. You can build a checklist with necessary tasks and prioritize them by placing them in the required order. This will make sure that you are reminded of the remaining tasks before the post goes live. Why worry about the things to do when the plugin will do that for you! Try it out on a free dummy site Key Features of Pre-Publish Checklist: The Pre-Publish Checklist is a useful plugin that lets you monitor whether the posts, pages and custom post types on your website are complete. With this plugin you can – Manage a checklist for your pages, posts, custom post types, etc. – The plugin fetches all of them in the settings and you can select where you wish to add the checklist. Create dedicated and personalized checklists for each of them – You can choose to create different checklists for pages, posts, etc. depending on the design and needs. Overview the progress of posts and pages – You no longer need to open the post or page editor to see whether a checklist is completed. We have added a column that can be seen alongside the list of posts and pages that will tell you whether a checklist is completed, how many items left or if a checklist isn’t added for a particular post type. How does it work? The Pre-Publish Checklist plugin lets you create a checklist and enable on the specific post types you wish to have it applied to. You can select the message that should be displayed to users when they click on the publish button without completing everything mentioned in the checklist. A pre-publish meta box gets added to the post types that you’ve selected and the plugin does its job every time you click the publish button without completing the checklist. Here are the points in brief – Under the General settings tab, select the action you wish to trigger when user clicks on the publish button. Select the post types you wish to get this applicable to. Create a checklist under the Checklist tab and save!