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>
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<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.

Cycles

<p><strong>NEW: Control which visitors see Cycles / leave feedback</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cycleshq.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Cycles</a></strong> allows you to collect visual feedback and approvals on your website.  Share your web pages with clients and colleagues, who view your work in their browser and post feedback directly on your webpages.</p>
<p>See Cycles in action – <strong><a href="https://demo.cycleshq.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Demo</a></strong></p>
<h4>Overview</h4>
<p>Cycles allows you to:</p>
<ul>
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<p><strong>Collect crystal clear client feedback</strong> – With Cycles, your clients comment directly on web pages, so you can see exactly what they’re referencing and understand what they mean. Clients view the website in their browser, and click directly on the page to comment. Feedback remains organized, eliminating back and forth emails and miscommunication.</p>
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<p><strong>Record approvals/sign off in the browser</strong> – Many clients respond differently when reviewing a website that feels closer to the “finished product.” When you’ve made any requested changes, your client can approve the page.  Cycles keeps a record of the time, date, and name of the approver in case you need it later.</p>
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<p><strong>Keep project members informed</strong> – Configure Cycles to send email notifications whenever someone makes a comment or approval.</p>
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<p><strong>Import feedback into 3rd party services</strong> – Connect your project to Trello, Basecamp, Asana, Slack, Help Scout, or any 3rd party service with project based email addresses, to bring feedback and approvals into your team’s project management workflow.</p>
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<h4>Note: You’ll need a (free) account to use Cycles</h4>
<p>A (free) Cycles account enables:</p>
<ul>
<li>A record of all comments, replies, and approvals (outside of your WordPress database or client’s site)</li>
<li>Easy notifications and integrations without configuring your WordPress email settings</li>
<li>Feedback and approvals on any web page or site</li>
</ul>
<p>Free accounts have no trial time limits, and include all visual feedback and approval features.</p>
<p>To get started, go to <a href="https://cycleshq.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://cycleshq.com</a>.</p>
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<h4>Plugin features</h4>
<p><strong>NEW: Control which visitors see Cycles / leave feedback</strong></p>
<p>Enable Cycles for all visitors, or restrict to signed in WordPress users, or users certain roles.  Now you can install Cycles on a “live” site, but restrict feedback collection to particular users.</p>
<p><strong>Enable Cycles for every page on your site</strong></p>
<p>Copy your unique project script into the plugin’s form field, and enable Cycles for every page on your site.</p>
<p><strong>Quickly enable / disable Cycles</strong></p>
<p>Use the plugin to switch Cycles on or off for your website.</p>


Visual feedback and approvals for web development projects. Get organized, insightful feedback from clients and teammates directly on the web page.

Editant vs Cycles