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Editorial Workflow Manager adds an editorial checklist to the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg) so your team can follow a consistent pre-publish checklist every time you publish.
It’s built for content teams, agencies, and editors who want a lightweight publishing checklist workflow inside the editor — with clear “ready vs incomplete” feedback — without hard publish blocking.
This plugin does not output anything on the front end.
<h3>What you can do</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create reusable checklist templates (required + optional items).</li>
<li>Assign different editorial checklists to different post types.</li>
<li>Track per-post checklist progress in the editor sidebar.</li>
<li>See readiness and progress in the sidebar, the post status panel, and the pre-publish panel.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Typical use cases</h3>
<ul>
<li>Blog posts: SEO checks, featured image, categories/tags, internal links, fact check.</li>
<li>News/Editorial: legal review, source confirmation, editor sign-off checklist.</li>
<li>Agencies: client approvals checklist, accessibility checks, brand requirements.</li>
<li>Teams: consistent publishing workflow across authors and editors.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Key features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Checklist templates – manage reusable checklists as a custom post type.</li>
<li>Template editor (row-based UI) – add, remove, reorder items; mark each item Required or Optional.</li>
<li>Required vs Optional items – readiness is based on required items only.</li>
<li>Per-post checklist state – each post/page stores its own checklist progress.</li>
<li>Gutenberg / Block Editor sidebar – “Editorial Checklist” panel inside the editor.</li>
<li>Readiness + progress indicators
<ul>
<li>Sidebar summary with Ready / Incomplete and required progress</li>
<li>Post Status panel summary while editing</li>
<li>Non-blocking pre-publish warning when required items are missing</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Different checklist per post type – assign templates in Settings.</li>
<li>Default templates included on activation.</li>
<li>Fresh-install quickstart wizard – choose post types, assign starter templates, and jump straight into the editor.</li>
<li>Lightweight editor tour – auto-open the checklist sidebar once and explain required-item readiness.</li>
<li>Backward compatible upgrades – legacy templates still work and upgrade to UUID-based v2 items when saved.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Getting started</h3>
<ol>
<li>Activate the plugin and complete the Quickstart wizard.</li>
<li>Choose the post types where editorial checklists should appear.</li>
<li>Confirm the starter template mappings, then open the editor.</li>
<li>Follow the one-time sidebar tour in the block editor.</li>
<li>Complete checklist items and watch the readiness/progress summary update.</li>
<li>Adjust mappings later in Settings → Editorial Workflow or edit templates in Checklist Templates.</li>
</ol>

Editorial Workflow Manager

Editorial checklist and pre-publish workflow for the WordPress editor. Create reusable checklists and get clear readiness feedback before publishing.

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Power up your editorial workflow
In a content editorial workflow, reviewing and providing feedback should be reasonably easy parts of the process.
While external collaboration tools like Google Docs are an option, online collaboration within the WordPress dashboard isn’t well set up by default.
Copy-pasting between Google Docs and WordPress can get frustrating and time-consuming. Also, being unable to leave direct comments on a post’s draft during the editorial process is a deal-breaker.
So, what should WordPress-focused content teams do to improve their collaborative output?
We bring to you – <a href="https://bit.ly/3vR2maF" rel="nofollow ugc">Multicollab</a>: a WordPress collaboration plugin which lets you Comment, Suggest and Collaborate – in real-time, in WordPress without switching back and forth between WordPress and other Apps. You can easily share editorial feedback directly within WordPress, including commenting, tagging, replying and much more!
The Multicollab WordPress plugin is a versatile WordPress collaboration plugin designed to streamline editorial collaboration and content feedback. It allows WordPress content creators to collaborate on articles, blog posts, and other editorial content directly within WordPress.
Install Multicollab, and you’ll instantly unlock collaboration functionality you’re familiar with from applications such as Google Docs in just a few simple clicks!
Multicollab inserts real-time collaborative tools to transform editorial workflows.
This plugin adds inline commenting functionality to Gutenberg directly, making commenting a single click of a button away. Users can add comments on text as well as Media.
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<blockquote>
This an easy-to-use plugin—the best one I’m aware of—for those who have an editorial process. My wife is a blogger and I’m her editor. We’ve only begun taking advantage of it but I wanted to offer a positive shout out. 
 – Mario T. Lanza – Sr. Web Developer
</blockquote>
Content collaboration in Gutenberg made simple
Whether your editorial workflow consists of just two people or fifty, gathering feedback and recommending changes to WordPress content has always meant you need to take that content elsewhere, such as Google Docs or any other editing suite.
This complicates your way of work unnecessarily, makes collaboration difficult, and can even lead to severe errors going live because things fall through the cracks between applications.
It’s also inefficient and wastes a lot of your editorial time!
Multicollab solves it once and for all.
Offering a seamless editorial workflow for teams, Multicollab is one of the best editorial collaboration tools in WordPress. With a robust content collaboration feature set, including collaborative editing, approval workflows, and content publishing workflows, the Multicollab plugin ensures a smooth and organized content creation process.
Installing the plugin enables the following key editorial features instantly:
<ol>
<li>Inline Commenting – Users can add comments on text and Media blocks to mark their feedback.</li>
<li>Team Collaboration – Invite editorial users to collaborate and comment by mentioning them, ensuring quick email notifications and seamless engagement in the conversation.</li>
<li>Reports and Activities – Track progress across all pages and posts with easy filtering to view by user, content categories, and time stamps.</li>
<li>Email Notifications – Instant email notifications make collaborations with your team easier and foster intra-group connectivity.</li>
</ol>
Multicollab offers a comprehensive editorial content management system, enabling users to oversee content production and ensure high-quality output. Whether you’re seeking a WordPress workflow plugin or a team collaboration plugin in WordPress, Multicollab provides the tools needed to enhance productivity and streamline the content creation process.
<blockquote>
Awesome plugin! This is exactly what I was looking for. This plugin works flawlessly. Great job. 
 – Ivan Ružević – WordPress Team Lead
</blockquote>
Built specifically for Gutenberg
Multicollab was designed to work with Gutenberg natively, so there’s no need to change your workflow! Fully compatible with Gutenberg versions 14.2 to 16.7, it works right out of the box!
<a href="https://bit.ly/3pBV6iK" rel="nofollow ugc">The Arrival of Gutenberg Phase 3: A Comprehensive Overview</a>
Need support? You’ve got it!
Multicollab is built to work effortlessly the minute you install it, with zero setup time: just add it, and start commenting on your pages or posts within Gutenberg within seconds.
If you do have specific questions about the plugin, our extensive <a href="https://bit.ly/3FqfRRD" rel="nofollow ugc">support centre documentation is available here</a> and should help you in most cases.
If you do need more help or have a specific question, we’re always happy to support!
<a href="https://bit.ly/3KPzx2I" rel="nofollow ugc">Simply open a ticket directly on the WordPress.org forum here</a>, and we’ll get back to you within as short a time as possible.
<blockquote>
The plug-in is awesome! It works fantastically. 
 – Charudatta Mondale Co-Founder at QuickDraft LLP
</blockquote>
📣 <a href="https://www.multicollab.com/blog/multicollab-4-3-introducing-new-lite-plan/" rel="nofollow ugc">Lite Plan for Smaller Teams</a>
We just introduced a brand new Lite Plan! The Lite plan offers the following features:
<ul>
<li>Inline Commenting</li>
<li>Team Collaboration</li>
<li>Guest Collaboration</li>
<li>Custom Permissions</li>
<li>Attach a document to comment</li>
<li>Multilingual</li>
<li>Reports and Activity</li>
<li>Email Notifications</li>
<li>Email Support</li>
</ul>
We are excited to see smaller teams reinvent their WordPress editorial collaboration with WordPress.
📣 <a href="https://youtu.be/s1v5_z4gGf8" rel="nofollow ugc">Collaborate even more effectively with our ‘PRO’ Plan</a>
The free version of Multicollab is easy to use and gives you all the commenting functionality to power up your editorial collaboration.
But if you’re looking to take your team’s collaboration even further, we offer a PRO plan which <a href="https://bit.ly/37n6XrN" rel="nofollow ugc">takes things to the next level</a>.
Here’s what you can unlock by <a href="https://www.multicollab.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">upgrading today</a>:
👉🏻 Real-time Co-Editing
Collaborate with multiple users simultaneously and edit posts together in real-time.
👉🏻 Editorial Checklist
Multicollab’s Editorial Checklist helps teams stay consistent by adding clear, repeatable review steps directly inside WordPress using structured checklists.
Teams can follow these checklists while working in Gutenberg, without relying on memory, external documents, or Slack reminders. This is especially useful for blogs with multiple reviewers, agencies managing client content, and publishing teams with recurring quality standards.
👉🏻 Content Workflows for Structured Publishing
As teams grow, content often needs review, approval, and sign-off before publishing; something WordPress doesn’t handle well by default. Multicollab adds clear, step-based workflows like Draft → Review → Approval → Publish directly inside the WordPress editor.
Teams can assign responsible users, update status, and track progress with full visibility, reducing confusion and preventing incomplete content from going live—all without external tools or manual tracking.
👉🏻 Live Content Versioning for Published Posts
Updating published content can be risky, as changes may go live without proper review.
With Live Content Versioning, you create a new draft of the published post instead of editing it directly. This draft goes through your full review and approval process, allowing reviewers to collaborate safely before the update is published.
👉🏻 Track changes with Suggestion mode
Sometimes, a comment isn’t quite enough, and it’s best to suggest the rewording of a sentence or phrase directly.
Like Google Docs, the plugin’s <a href="https://www.multicollab.com/features/#Suggestion-Mode" rel="nofollow ugc">Suggestion</a> mode enabled on Multicollab Premium lets you add edits directly as suggestions to the content to enable the author or other user to accept, reject or collaborate in more detail. 
Paired with mentions, tagging and notifications, this makes collaborative editing within WordPress a breeze!
( *Suggestion mode works on <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H0uksGbTMOy7f9fkSGXvkl1fwqO7ekShjo1j3JsOA6k/edit#gid=623920799" rel="nofollow ugc">these blocks</a>.)
👉🏻 Slack Notifications
If you and your team use Slack to communicate internally, you can receive important Multicollab notifications in the Slack channel of your choice. You will get real-time updates for mentions, replies, and other comment activities in your Slack channel. 
This allows you to fit Multicollab in a place you know your team will check all day.
👉🏻 Custom Permissions 
You can decide which team members should have permission to manage comments and suggestions in Multicollab.
Settings can be configured to decide who should have access to add a comment, resolve comments, and disable comments. You can configure who should have access to accept or reject suggestions.
👉🏻 Add Attachments to Comments
If a picture is worth a thousand words, isn’t a video worth a thousand pictures?
The Attach Document feature allows you to share additional references and context to your comment. Collaborators can attach images or documents to their comments and replies. It opens up the possibility for you to express your thoughts with screenshots, screencasts, audio messages, etc.
👉🏻 Multilingual
With this feature, you can use the Multicollab plugin in 6 distinct languages – German, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, French, and Bengali.
Everything from comment boards to settings will automatically sync with your selected language so that you can enjoy streamlined collaboration no matter what language is native to you.
👉🏻 Support & Licensing
The Multicollab support team is driven by a desire to provide an excellent experience for all your editorial workflow needs. With the premium plan, you’ll get assistance within 24 hours to stay on track with your content.
👉🏻 Email Support
Your team’s setup may have specific requirements and need attention to solve a workflow problem fast.
Email support is available anytime, and all feedback is encouraged to ensure we can give you the best experience possible. This ensures everything keeps moving smoothly and that nothing delays your team collaboration.
The team behind Multicollab is <a href="https://bit.ly/38Xwp7w" rel="nofollow ugc">Multidots</a> – a full-service WordPress development agency and WordPress VIP Gold Agency Partner, so you can rest assured that our support is truly second to none!
<blockquote>
Great Solution. Fantastic Support! We were using the free version and it was already very helpful. We were very interested in the new features but concerned about price and the complexity of our specific needs. After upgrading we worked with support to customize the plugin so we can successfully support 50 contributors that use WordPress as our core editorial management system. I fully expect it to transform our editorial process. We’re very happy with the product and the company’s support. 
 – Charles Araujo – Co-Founder – The MAPS Institute
</blockquote>
🔥 <a href="https://bit.ly/3wcQjDB" rel="nofollow ugc">Try out the full features of Multicollab Premium in our demo here!</a> 🔥

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