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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As websites grow, published content often becomes outdated, inconsistent, or easy to forget.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.

editant

Editant is a content review and approval plugin for WordPress. Generate a secure preview link for any post, page, or custom post type and share it with reviewers – clients, stakeholders, internal teams, regulators – who can read the rendered content, leave threaded feedback, and approve or request changes. No WordPress login required for reviewers.
Everything runs on your own WordPress instance. There is no SaaS backend, no per-seat fee, and no reviewer data leaves your server.
<h4>What’s included</h4>
<ul>
<li>Tokenised preview links for any public post type, with configurable expiry and one-click revocation.</li>
<li>Login-free reviewer access via secure 256-bit tokens, stored hashed.</li>
<li>Threaded comments – reviewers and authors can reply within threads.</li>
<li>Optional reviewer identity capture: anonymous, name only, or name plus email.</li>
<li>Block editor sidebar showing live comment threads alongside the content you’re editing, with auto-refresh and manual refresh.</li>
<li>Admin dashboard listing every active link with reviewer counts, decisions, and last activity.</li>
<li>Approve and Request Changes decisions, recorded with full history.</li>
<li>Email notifications for new comments, replies, and decisions.</li>
<li>Configurable defaults for new links, email sender, and rate limits via the Settings page.</li>
<li>Custom post type support out of the box.</li>
<li>Full RTL language support across reviewer page, sidebar, and dashboard.</li>
<li>Translation-ready, with a <code>.pot</code> file shipped.</li>
<li>GDPR data exporter and eraser hooked into WordPress core privacy tools.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Coming next (Pro)</h4>
Editant Pro will add inline (text-anchored) commenting, tracked-changes-style suggestions, multi-reviewer quorum approvals, signed audit trails, deadlines and reminders, per-link access control (passwords, IP allow-lists, view-once links), white-labelling and branding for the reviewer page, and AI-assisted review features using your own provider keys.
<h4>Privacy</h4>
Editant stores reviewer comments and decisions in your own database. IP addresses and user agents are hashed with a per-site salt before storage. No data is sent to any external service from the free plugin. AI features (Pro) require you to bring your own provider key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, or local models via Ollama) – Editant never proxies AI calls.
<h3>Development</h3>
Editant is open source under the GPL. The full source for the admin and reviewer interfaces (React/JSX and SCSS) ships in this plugin under <code>assets/src/</code>. Running the build below produces the files in <code>assets/build/</code> that ship with the plugin.
To rebuild from source:
<ol>
<li>Install Node.js 22 or later and PHP 8.1 or later.</li>
<li>From the plugin directory, run <code>composer install</code> and <code>npm install</code>.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm run build</code>.</li>
</ol>
Configuration files included in the plugin: <code>webpack.config.js</code>, <code>package.json</code>, <code>composer.json</code>. Third-party dependencies are declared in <code>package.json</code> (JavaScript) and <code>composer.json</code> (PHP). The build pipeline uses <code>@wordpress/scripts</code>.

Editant

Share unpublished WordPress content with reviewers via secure links. Threaded comments, approval decisions, full audit, no logins required.

Content Lifecycle Manager vs Editant