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An incredibly simple and lightweight solution for alerting you of new pending posts from contributors and alerting contributors when their submissions are either approved or declined.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Sends email to admin if new post pending</li>
<li>Sends email to author if pending post approved</li>
<li>Sends email to author if pending post declined</li>
</ul>

Contributor Notifications

An incredibly simple and lightweight solution for alerting you of new pending posts from contributors and alerting contributors when their submissions …

ryansommers

Obvious Post States does what its name implies: makes the post states of your Posts and Pages stand out.
Post states like Draft, Pending, Sticky, Password Protected, etc. will be more prominent and obvious.
Takes into account the built-in WordPress Admin Color Schemes so everything matches.
Check out the screenshot to see an example.

Obvious Post States

Make the WordPress post state text (draft, pending, sticky, etc) stand out.

Contributor Notifications vs Obvious Post States