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.

Steve Burge

andergmartins

Kevin Behrens

PublishPress

Olawale Adesina

ojopaul

Riza Maulana Ardiyanto

Richa Ferry Setyawan

<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/checklists/" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Checklists</a> is the best plugin to make sure your content is ready to go live. Using PublishPress Checklists, you define tasks that must be completed before content is published.</p>
<p>Let’s show you a few possible options for your posts:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ensure your posts have a minimum or maximum number of words.</li>
<li>Require your posts have a featured image.</li>
<li>Check for any broken links.</li>
<li>Force authors to use a specific number of Tags or Categories.</li>
<li>Require posts to be approved by a user in a specific role.</li>
<li>Use OpenAI to scan your content and make sure it uses good grammar or the correct tone.</li>
</ul>
<p>Next to every post and page, writers see a checklist box, showing the tasks they need to complete. Tasks can either be recommended or required. As authors complete each task, the red X automatically turns to a green checkmark.</p>
<p>PublishPress Checklists integrates with <a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/woocommerce-product-tasks/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce</a>, <a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/yoast-seo-tasks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Yoast SEO</a>, <a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/all-in-one-seo-tasks/" rel="nofollow ugc">All in One SEO</a>, <a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/rank-math-seo-tasks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Rank Math SEO</a>,and <a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/advance-custom-fields-tasks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Custom Fields</a>. You can set requirements based on those plugins.</p>
<p>PublishPress Checklists also <a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/openai/" rel="nofollow ugc">integrates with OpenAI</a>. You can use OpenAI technology to scan your posts and check for the right tone, good spelling, or correct grammar.</p>
<h3>PublishPress Checklists Pro</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Checklists Pro</strong><br />
  This plugin is the free version of the Checklists Pro plugin that comes with all the features you need to set standards for your WordPress content. <a href="https://publishpress.com/checklists" title="Checklists Pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to purchase the best premium WordPress checklists plugin now!</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Each task on your pre-publish checklist can be configured to meet your site’s needs. You can also set maximum and minimum values.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/checklists-started/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read the Getting Started guide for PublishPress Checklists</a>.</p>
<h3>Content Tasks</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/number-of-characters-in-title/" rel="nofollow ugc">Title</a>: Maximum or minimum number of characters.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/number-of-words-in-content/" rel="nofollow ugc">Body text</a>: Maximum or minimum number of words in the post content.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/number-of-characters-in-excerpt/" rel="nofollow ugc">Excerpt</a>: Maximum or minimum number of characters in the excerpt.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/avoid-heading-tags-in-content-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Avoid specific heading tags</a> (Pro version): You can enter choices for the headings to prohibit. The options are H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, and H6.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/prohibited-words/" rel="nofollow ugc">Prohibited words</a> (Pro version): You can prevent specific words from being added to a post.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Publish Date/ Time Tasks</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/publish-time-specific/" rel="nofollow ugc">Publish time should be at a specific time</a> (Pro version): Make sure that your WordPress posts are created with a specific Publish time.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/publish-time-future/" rel="nofollow ugc">Publish time should be in the future</a> (Pro version): Specify that your WordPress posts are created with a Publish date that is in the future.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Approval Tasks</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/approved-by-a-user-in-this-role/" rel="nofollow ugc">Approved by a user in this role</a>: Require that posts are approved by users in a specific role.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/approved-specific-user/" rel="nofollow ugc">Approved by user</a> (Pro version): Require that posts are approved by a specific user.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Image Tasks</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/alt-text-for-all-images/" rel="nofollow ugc">All images have ALT text</a>: Require ALT text for all images. You can also specify a maximum and minimum number of characters in the ALT text.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/number-of-images-in-content/" rel="nofollow ugc">Number of images in content</a> (Pro version): Require a maximum and minimum number of images in the post.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/number-of-characters-in-image-captions/" rel="nofollow ugc">Number of characters in image captions</a> (Pro version): Specify a maximum and minimum number of characters in image captions.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Audio / Video Tasks</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/number-of-audio-items-in-content/" rel="nofollow ugc">Number of audio items in content</a> (Pro version): You can require a maximum and minimum number of audio items for your WordPress posts. This covers native HTML players, WordPress shortcodes, and third-party audio embeds such as SoundCloud, Spotify, Mixcloud, and PocketCasts.</li>
<li>[Number of video items in content] (https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/number-of-video-items-in-content/) (Pro version): you can require a maximum and minimum number of audio items for your WordPress posts. This cover a wide range of video content from self-hosted video to YouTube, Vimeo, VideoPress and more.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Featured Image Tasks</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/featured-image/" rel="nofollow ugc">Featured image</a>: Require a featured image.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/featured-image-has-alt-text/" rel="nofollow ugc">Featured image has ALT text</a>: Require ALT text for the featured image.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/featured-image-has-caption/" rel="nofollow ugc">Featured image has a Caption</a>: Require a caption for the featured image.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/featured-image-height-width/" rel="nofollow ugc">Featured image size</a> (Pro version): Require a maximum and minimum height and width for featured images.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Link Tasks</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/number-of-internal-links-in-content/" rel="nofollow ugc">Internal links</a>: Maximum or minimum number of internal links.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/number-of-external-links-in-content/" rel="nofollow ugc">External links</a>: Maximum or minimum number of external links.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/all-links-use-a-valid-format/" rel="nofollow ugc">Broken links</a>: Check that all links use a valid format.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/characters-in-permalink/" rel="nofollow ugc">Permalink</a>: Control the characters in the URL.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Taxonomy Tasks</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/number-of-tags-or-taxonomy-terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Taxonomy terms</a>: Maximum or minimum number of categories or tags.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/required-tags-or-categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">Required taxonomy terms</a>: Force users to add specific terms.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/prohibited-tags-or-categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">Prohibited taxonomy terms</a>: Force users to not add specific terms.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Accessibility Tasks</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/only-one-h1-tag-in-content/" rel="nofollow ugc">Only one H1 tag in content</a> (Pro version): Specify that there is only a single H1 tag in your content.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/header-tags-logical-order/" rel="nofollow ugc">Header tags are used in logical order</a> (Pro version): Ensure that posts on your WordPress site have headings in the correct order. For example: the heading order in your posts should be H1, H2, and then H3</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/tables-have-a-header-row/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tables have a header row</a> (Pro version): Specify that all tables added to your WordPress posts have header rows.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Required, Recommended, or Required?</h3>
<p>You can configure each requirement, depending on whether you want to require writers to complete the tasks. Here are the three options:</p>
<ul>
<li>Disabled</li>
<li>Recommended</li>
<li>Required</li>
</ul>
<p>If you choose the “Required” option, it will be impossible to publish without completing the task.</p>
<h3>OpenAI Checklist Requirements</h3>
<p>PublishPress Checklists integrates with OpenAI. You can use prompts to analyze your content. If OpenAI decides that your content doesn’t meet the requirements, it will show the task as incomplete.</p>
<p>You can create checklist requirements like these:</p>
<ul>
<li>“Is the content clear and easy to read?”</li>
<li>“Is this content tone professional?”</li>
<li>“Does this article use correct grammar?”</li>
</ul>
<p>OpenAI will scan your content and given a detailed verdict. This is an excellent way to catch errors and improve your content before publishing.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/custom-requirements-checklist/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see how to create OpenAI requirements</a>.</p>
<h3>You Can Create New Checklist Requirements</h3>
<p>You can create new requirements for your checklists by clicking the “Add custom task” link. For example, you can require authors to get a green Yoast sign, or force them to run a spell-check before publishing.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/custom-requirements-checklist/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see how to create custom requirements</a>.</p>
<p>It is also possible to create more powerful requirements using a custom plugin. We have created a sample plugin to show how to do this. The sample plugin will automatically check that your site’s authors have included a specific word in their main content. If this new requirement is enabled, it will automatically search the text of your content to make sure it contains the word you choose.</p>
<h3>Pro Version: Checklists for WooCommerce Products</h3>
<p>The Pro version of PublishPress Checklists has support for WooCommerce. There are all the requirements you can choose:</p>
<ul>
<li>Number of characters in Excerpt</li>
<li>Number of Product tags</li>
<li>Number of Product categories</li>
<li>Number of words</li>
<li>Featured image</li>
<li>Check the “Virtual” box</li>
<li>Check the “Downloadable” box</li>
<li>Enter a “Regular price”</li>
<li>Enter a “Sale price”</li>
<li>Schedule the “Sale price”</li>
<li>Discount for the “Sale price”</li>
<li>Enter a “SKU”</li>
<li>Check the “Manage stock?” box</li>
<li>Check the “Sold individually” box</li>
<li>Check the “Allow backorders?” box</li>
<li>Select some products for “Upsells”</li>
<li>Select some products for “Cross-sells”</li>
<li>Product image</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/use-woocommerce-checklist-add-publishpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to read more about WooCommerce checklists</a>.</p>
<h3>Pro Version: Checklists for Advanced Custom Fields</h3>
<p>The Pro version of PublishPress Checklists has support for the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. For example, you can require that text fields have a certain number of characters or that image fields are filled in.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/advance-custom-fields-tasks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to read more about ACF checklists</a>.</p>
<h3>Pro Version: Checklists for Yoast SEO</h3>
<p>With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can require that site’s content meets minimum standards with the Yoast SEO plugin. If the content doesn’t meet those standards, you can choose to show a warning, or prevent the post from being published. The Checklists plugin integrates with the SEO and Readability features in Yoast SEO.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/yoast-seo-tasks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to read more about Yoast SEO checklists</a>.</p>
<h3>Pro Version: Checklists for Rank Math SEO</h3>
<p>With the Pro version of the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can require that site’s content meets minimum standards with the Rank Math SEO plugin. If the content doesn’t meet those standards, you can choose to show a warning, or prevent the post from being published. The Checklists plugin integrates with the “SEO Score” feature in Rank Math SEO.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/rank-math-seo-tasks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to read more about Rank Math SEO checklists</a>.</p>
<h3>Pro Version: Checklists for All in One SEO</h3>
<p>With the Pro version of the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can require that site’s content meets minimum standards with the All in One SEO plugin. If the content doesn’t meet those standards, you can choose to show a warning, or prevent the post from being published. The Checklists plugin integrates with the “SEO Score” and “SEO Headline Score” features in All in One SEO.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/all-in-one-seo-tasks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to read more about All in One SEO checklists</a>.</p>
<h3>Join PublishPress and get the Pro plugins</h3>
<p>The Pro versions of the PublishPress plugins are well worth your investment. The Pro versions have extra features and faster support. <a href="https://publishpress.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to join PublishPress</a>.</p>
<p>Join PublishPress and you’ll get access to these Pro plugins:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/authors" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Authors Pro</a> allows you to add multiple authors and guest authors to WordPress posts.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/blocks" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Blocks Pro</a> has everything you need to build professional websites with the WordPress block editor.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/capabilities" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Capabilities Pro</a> is the plugin to manage your WordPress user roles, permissions, and capabilities.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/checklists" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Checklists Pro</a> enables you to define tasks that must be completed before content is published.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/future" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Future Pro</a> is the plugin for scheduling changes to your posts.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/permissions" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Permissions Pro</a>  is the plugin for restricted content and advanced WordPress permissions.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/publishpress" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Planner Pro</a> is the plugin for managing and scheduling WordPress content.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/revisions" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Revisions Pro</a> allows you to update your published pages with teamwork and precision.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/series" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Series Pro</a> enables you to group content together into a series.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/shortlinks" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Shortlinks Pro</a> allows you to create custom URLs for your posts and external links.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/statuses" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Statuses Pro</a> enables you to create additional publishing steps for your posts.</li>
</ul>
<p>Together, these plugins are a suite of powerful publishing tools for WordPress. If you need to create a professional workflow in WordPress, with moderation, revisions, permissions and more… then you should try PublishPress.</p>
<h3>Bug Reports</h3>
<p>Bug reports for PublishPress Checklists are welcomed in our <a href="https://github.com/publishpress/publishpress-checklists" rel="nofollow ugc">repository on GitHub</a>. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, and that issues that aren’t properly qualified as bugs will be closed.</p>


PublishPress Checklists: Pre-Publishing Approval Checklist – Validate Post Requirements

I used another checklist plugin not compatible with Gutenberg. Publishpress checklist works perfectly with the behavior I need : prevent to publish if the conditions required are not good.

Works nicely

Define checklist tasks to complete before publishing posts. Make sure your content meets your requirements.

Editant vs PublishPress Checklists: Pre-Publishing Approval Checklist – Validate Post Requirements