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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.

Automattic

Daniel Bachhuber

Gary Jones

Mohammad Jangda

Scott Bressler

Edit Flow empowers you to collaborate with your editorial team inside WordPress. We’ve made it modular so you can customize it to your needs:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://editflow.org/features/calendar/" rel="nofollow ugc">Calendar</a> – A convenient month-by-month look at your content.</li>
<li><a href="http://editflow.org/features/custom-statuses/" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Statuses</a> – Define the key stages to your workflow.</li>
<li><a href="http://editflow.org/features/editorial-comments/" rel="nofollow ugc">Editorial Comments</a> – Threaded commenting in the admin for private discussion between writers and editors.</li>
<li><a href="http://editflow.org/features/editorial-metadata/" rel="nofollow ugc">Editorial Metadata</a> – Keep track of the important details.</li>
<li><a href="http://editflow.org/features/notifications/" rel="nofollow ugc">Notifications</a> – Receive timely updates on the content you’re following.</li>
<li><a href="http://editflow.org/features/story-budget/" rel="nofollow ugc">Story Budget</a> – View your upcoming content budget.</li>
<li><a href="http://editflow.org/features/user-groups/" rel="nofollow ugc">User Groups</a> – Keep your users organized by department or function.</li>
</ul>
More details for each feature, screenshots and documentation can be found on <a href="http://editflow.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">our website</a>.
We’d love to hear from you! For support questions, feedback and ideas, please use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/tags/edit-flow?forum_id=10" rel="ugc">WordPress.org forums</a>, which we look at often. If you’d like to contribute code, <a href="http://editflow.org/contribute/" rel="nofollow ugc">we’d love to have you involved</a>.

Edit Flow

I have a fresh install with no plugins and Twenty Seventeen and I get this error when I try to activate the plugin: 

The plugin does not have a valid header.

Is this plugin dead?

Unable to Activate

Great plugin, logical interface. But there are two huge downsides:


	No active support from the developers
	It does not work on Gutenberg


So if you're not working with Gutenberg (which will be the default editor in WP 5.0) and you have no need for support: go for it! Great plugin!
In all other cases: find something better, and let me know what you've found, I need a replacement as well ;)

Editorial Workflow Manager vs Edit Flow