WPVibes

Anand Upadhyay

Content Lifecycle Manager helps you keep WordPress content accurate, up to date, and properly maintained over time.
As websites grow, published content often becomes outdated, inconsistent, or easy to forget.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.
Content Lifecycle Manager brings a simple maintenance workflow into WordPress so content upkeep becomes easier to manage as part of everyday publishing.
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.
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.
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.
For teams that want automated reminders, a full activity log, and a dashboard widget, Content Lifecycle Manager Pro extends the free plugin with the workflow tools described below.
<h3>Features</h3>
Free
<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>
Pro (<a href="https://qikly.ink/clm" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to Pro</a>)
<ul>
<li>Owner reminder emails: automated notifications to content owners about overdue and due-soon items, with configurable schedule and due-soon window.</li>
<li>Admin activity digest: periodic email summary of all maintenance activity site-wide, with configurable schedule and recipients.</li>
<li>Dashboard widget: surface content needing attention on the WordPress dashboard, scoped to the current user or all content.</li>
<li>Full Activity Log screen: dedicated screen with filters by actor, post type, and date range to audit every maintenance change.</li>
<li>Note field on maintenance actions: annotate a Mark Reviewed, Snooze, or Archive action with free-text context that’s saved alongside the entry.</li>
<li>Email customization: sender and notification preferences kept aligned with your brand.</li>
</ul>
Free settings, ideas, and activity records carry over automatically when you upgrade to Pro. No migration needed.

Content Lifecycle Manager

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

Automattic

Daniel Bachhuber

Gary Jones

Mohammad Jangda

Scott Bressler

Edit Flow empowers you to collaborate with your editorial team inside WordPress. We’ve made it modular so you can customize it to your needs:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://editflow.org/features/calendar/" rel="nofollow ugc">Calendar</a> – A convenient month-by-month look at your content.</li>
<li><a href="http://editflow.org/features/custom-statuses/" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Statuses</a> – Define the key stages to your workflow.</li>
<li><a href="http://editflow.org/features/editorial-comments/" rel="nofollow ugc">Editorial Comments</a> – Threaded commenting in the admin for private discussion between writers and editors.</li>
<li><a href="http://editflow.org/features/editorial-metadata/" rel="nofollow ugc">Editorial Metadata</a> – Keep track of the important details.</li>
<li><a href="http://editflow.org/features/notifications/" rel="nofollow ugc">Notifications</a> – Receive timely updates on the content you’re following.</li>
<li><a href="http://editflow.org/features/story-budget/" rel="nofollow ugc">Story Budget</a> – View your upcoming content budget.</li>
<li><a href="http://editflow.org/features/user-groups/" rel="nofollow ugc">User Groups</a> – Keep your users organized by department or function.</li>
</ul>
More details for each feature, screenshots and documentation can be found on <a href="http://editflow.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">our website</a>.
We’d love to hear from you! For support questions, feedback and ideas, please use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/edit-flow/" rel="ugc">WordPress.org forums</a>, which we look at often. If you’d like to contribute code, <a href="http://editflow.org/contribute/" rel="nofollow ugc">we’d love to have you involved</a>.

Edit Flow

I have a fresh install with no plugins and Twenty Seventeen and I get this error when I try to activate the plugin: 

The plugin does not have a valid header.

Is this plugin dead?

Unable to Activate

Great plugin, logical interface. But there are two huge downsides:


	No active support from the developers
	It does not work on Gutenberg


So if you're not working with Gutenberg (which will be the default editor in WP 5.0) and you have no need for support: go for it! Great plugin!
In all other cases: find something better, and let me know what you've found, I need a replacement as well ;)

Content Lifecycle Manager vs Edit Flow