Pre-Publish Checklist vs TimeSpan

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!

Welcome to TimeSpan The plugin ships with default settings, but allows you to change everything from: the message shown for a post that will take less than one minute; the message shown for any post over 1 minute; and the words-per-minute used to calculate the reading time. Setup Once the plugin is activated, you have two options: you can include it in your theme files (handy for WordPress developers), or you can let us do all the heavy lifting with automagic setup. Include TimeSpan in Your Theme Files Head over to the TimeSpan menu under Settings Fill out the options on that page Place the ‘echo do_shortcode(‘[time-span]’)’ shortcode wherever you’d like the data to show up in your theme file (e.g. page-home.php). Click the blue “Save Changes” button. That’s it! Automagic Setup The Automagic Setup will automatically insert the calculated time to read at the top of each of your posts. Here’s how to do that: Head over to the TimeSpan menu under Settings Fill out the options on that page Check the box at the bottom labeled “Automatically insert the time to read at the top of Posts”. Click the blue “Save Changes” button. That’s it! Are you guys for hire? We sure are. We’re a custom design & WordPress development shop. If WordPress can do it, we can do it. Drop us a line!