WPVibes

Anand Upadhyay

<p>Content Lifecycle Manager helps you keep WordPress content accurate, up to date, and properly maintained over time.</p>
<p>As websites grow, published content often becomes outdated, inconsistent, or easy to forget. Pages and posts may still be live, but the information inside them can slowly lose relevance. In many cases, the challenge is not creating new content. It is making sure existing content is still correct, still useful, and still worth keeping.</p>
<p>Content Lifecycle Manager brings a simple maintenance workflow into WordPress so content upkeep becomes easier to manage as part of everyday publishing.</p>
<p>You can assign ownership, track review dates, identify content that needs attention, and take clear next steps such as marking content as reviewed, snoozing a review, or archiving content that is no longer relevant. Instead of relying on memory or scattered editorial processes, your team gets a structured way to review and maintain content over time.</p>
<p>The plugin also includes a lightweight Ideas area for capturing future content topics and turning them into drafts when needed. This helps connect early planning with the long-term lifecycle of published content.</p>
<p>Whether you manage a small site or a large content library, Content Lifecycle Manager helps you build a more reliable process for keeping your website content current, useful, and easier to maintain.</p>
<p>For teams that want automated reminders, a full activity log, and a dashboard widget, <strong>Content Lifecycle Manager Pro</strong> extends the free plugin with the workflow tools described below.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p><strong>Free</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Assign ownership to pages and posts</li>
<li>Track review dates and identify content that needs attention</li>
<li>Maintain content directly from the WordPress editor (block editor panel and classic editor meta box)</li>
<li>Mark content as reviewed, snooze reviews, or archive content when needed</li>
<li>View content health from a dedicated admin dashboard</li>
<li>Bring existing content into the workflow with a one-time onboarding flow</li>
<li>Capture content ideas and turn them into draft posts</li>
<li>Default Content Owner setting to auto-assign new content</li>
<li>Latest Activity panel in the editor for the current post</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Pro</strong> (<a href="https://qikly.ink/clm" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to Pro</a>)</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Owner reminder emails</strong>: automated notifications to content owners about overdue and due-soon items, with configurable schedule and due-soon window.</li>
<li><strong>Admin activity digest</strong>: periodic email summary of all maintenance activity site-wide, with configurable schedule and recipients.</li>
<li><strong>Dashboard widget</strong>: surface content needing attention on the WordPress dashboard, scoped to the current user or all content.</li>
<li><strong>Full Activity Log screen</strong>: dedicated screen with filters by actor, post type, and date range to audit every maintenance change.</li>
<li><strong>Note field</strong> on maintenance actions: annotate a Mark Reviewed, Snooze, or Archive action with free-text context that’s saved alongside the entry.</li>
<li><strong>Email customization</strong>: sender and notification preferences kept aligned with your brand.</li>
</ul>
<p>Free settings, ideas, and activity records carry over automatically when you upgrade to Pro. No migration needed.</p>


Content Lifecycle Manager

Helps you keep WordPress content accurate, up to date, and properly maintained over time.

Unioney

<p>Author by Category helps websites and multi-user blogs keep post authors consistent without disrupting the editorial workflow.</p>
<ul>
<li>This plugin is completely <strong>free</strong>.</li>
<li>Create simple rules that connect categories to specific users.  </li>
<li>When a post is saved with those categories, the plugin can automatically assign the author.  </li>
<li>If an editor changes the author manually, their choice is always remembered.  </li>
<li>This prevents posts from being published under the wrong name by accident.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Works with any user — not just authors.  </li>
<li>Admins can assign any user (editor, contributor, etc.) to any category.  </li>
<li>Manual author selection is always allowed and remembered.  </li>
<li>Rules can include multiple categories; first match wins.  </li>
<li>Duplicate guard: one category can only be used in one rule.  </li>
<li>Optimized for large sites with many users.  </li>
<li>Secure: follows WordPress coding standards (nonces, capability checks, sanitization).  </li>
<li>Compatible with scheduled posts, REST publishing, PHP 8+, and the latest WordPress versions.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Best Practice for Performance</h3>
<p>For smooth scheduling and zero-maintenance cron execution, we recommend hosting your WordPress site on <a href="https://ihost.eco" rel="nofollow ugc">ihost</a> WordPress Cloud Hosting.<br />
See FAQ <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Recommended Hosting for an <strong>ihost-optimised <code>php.ini</code> template</strong> you can copy and paste.</p>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<ul>
<li>Scheduled posts: applies the correct author at publish time.  </li>
<li>REST/remote publishing (for example, MultiPost plugin): ensures the correct author after categories and content are set.  </li>
<li>Designed for large editorial teams.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to <strong>Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Author by Category</strong> and create rules that match categories to users.  </li>
<li>When a post is saved or published, the plugin checks which categories are selected.  </li>
<li>If a matching rule is found, the post author is updated automatically.  </li>
<li>If an editor changes the author manually, the plugin remembers that choice for future posts with the same categories.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>This plugin does not collect, store, or share any data.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Developed by <a href="https://unioney.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Unioney</a>.</p>


Author by Category

Automatically assign post authors based on categories, while keeping full manual control.

Content Lifecycle Manager vs Author by Category