editant

<p>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.</p>
<p>Everything runs on your own WordPress instance. There is no SaaS backend, no per-seat fee, and no reviewer data leaves your server.</p>
<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>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>To rebuild from source:</p>
<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>
<p>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>.</p>


Editant

Share unpublished WordPress content with reviewers via secure links.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

ianhaycox

Ian Stanley

<p>To help reduce spam in bbPress forums, this plugin will change the status of new topics and<br />
replies to ‘pending’. Any pending topics/replies will be shown as ‘Awaiting Moderation’ until<br />
the administrator approves publishes them.</p>
<p><strong>Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Blog administrator can be notified of new topics and replies requiring moderation.</li>
<li>Anonymous postings can always be marked for moderation.</li>
<li>Registered users can post without moderation after the first topic/reply is approved.</li>
<li>A bubble counter is shown on the Topics and Replies menu to indicate the number of posts awaiting moderation.</li>
<li>Pending topics/replies are styled to give the submitting user a ‘hint’ that the new topic/reply is pending</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Languages</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>German – Thanks – daveshine (David Decker)</li>
<li>Turkish – Thanks Mustafa Çoban</li>
<li>Spanish – Thanks Yo</li>
<li>The .pot file is shipped for other translations – [send them in email iandstanley at gmail dot com]</li>
</ul>
<p>If you do download this plugin please come back and rate it. For any rating less than 5 stars<br />
I would love to hear your feedback to help improve the plugin. Usability issues, bugs, enhancements<br />
and any other comments welcome to make this plugin better. <a href="http://ianhaycox.com/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">Contact</a></p>
<p><strong>More</strong></p>
<p>See my <a href="http://ianhaycox.com/programming/" rel="nofollow ugc">other plugins</a> and <a href="http://ianhaycox.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">work</a></p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Once activated the bbPressModeration plugin will, depending on the settings, prevent the publishing<br />
of topics and replies until approved by the site administrator.</p>
<p>Registered users who have previously had a topic/reply approved do not need to go through the moderation<br />
process for subsequent posts.</p>
<p>If a topic/reply is marked for moderation then it is shown in the bbPress Topic or Reply menu as Pending.<br />
To approve the post, edit and click Publish.</p>


bbPress Moderation

Add the ability to moderate and approve new topics and replies in the bbPress V2.0 plugin

Editant vs bbPress Moderation