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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.

10up

Jeffrey Paul

Josh Levinson

brs14ku

observerteam

Eight Day Week provides a set of tools to manage your print workflow directly in your WordPress dashboard–right where your posts are!
Primarily, it offers an interface to group, label, and manage the workflow status of posts in a printed “Issue”.
Features:
Create “Print Issues”
<ul>
<li>Add and order sections, and articles within sections</li>
<li>Assign article statuses specific to your print workflow</li>
</ul>
Limit access to Print Roles
Two custom roles are added by this plugin to best model a real-world print team.
<ul>
<li>The Print Editor role offers full access to the creation interfaces, such as Print Issue, Article Status, Print Publication, etc.</li>
<li>The Print Production role offers read-only access to a Print Issues. The XML export tool is also available to Production users.</li>
</ul>
View a Print Issue in “Read Only” mode
<ul>
<li>Circumvents the post locking feature by offering a read-only view of a print issue</li>
</ul>
XML Export to InDesign: Classic Editor vs. Gutenberg Exports
When exporting content from WordPress for use in InDesign, there are key differences between Classic Editor and Gutenberg (Block Editor) exports. This section highlights how each type of export behaves in InDesign and offers guidance on how to handle these differences.
<ul>
<li>Classic Editor exports use basic HTML tags like <code></code>, <code></code>, and <code></code>, making them straightforward for import into InDesign.</li>
<li>Gutenberg exports include additional metadata such as HTML comments (<code></code>) that define block-level structures, which may require manual adjustments after importing into InDesign.</li>
</ul>
Import Differences:
<ul>
<li>Classic Editor: Imports cleanly into InDesign without extra metadata.</li>
<li>Gutenberg: May include block-related metadata, requiring users to clean up the imported content or manually adjust formatting.</li>
</ul>
Recommendations:
<ul>
<li>Classic Editor: Best for simple imports with minimal manual work.</li>
<li>Gutenberg: Recommended for users comfortable with removing metadata or adjusting block-based settings after the import.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Filters & Hooks</h3>
Eight Day Week provides a number of filters and hooks for customizing and extending the plugin.
Modules
Eight Day Week follows a module-style approach to many of its features. These can be turned on or off via filters, and all work independently. 
These are: 
Article Byline 
Article Count 
Article Export 
Article Status 
Issue Publication 
Issue Status 
Any of these can be disabled by returning a false value from the following filter format:
<pre><code>add_filter( 'Eight_Day_Week\Plugins\load_$plugin', '__return_false' );
</code></pre>
The <code>$plugin</code> value is a slug version of the plugin name, i.e. article-byline.
Article Table
The information displayed in the list of articles within a Print Issue is filterable. Custom columns can be added via the following filters: <code>Eight_Day_Week\Articles\article_columns</code> and <code>Eight_Day_Week\Articles\article_meta_$column_name</code>.
Sample usage:
<pre><code>add_filter( 'Eight_Day_Week\Articles\article_columns', function( $columns ) {
 $columns['byline'] = _x( 'Byline', 'Label for multiple, comma separated authors', 'your-text-domain' );
 return $columns;
} );
add_filter( 'Eight_Day_Week\Articles\article_meta_byline', function( $incoming_value, $post ) {
 return implode( ', ', wp_list_pluck( my_get_post_authors_function( $post ), 'display_name' ) );
}
</code></pre>
Print Issue Table
The information displayed in the list of Print Issues is filterable. Custom columns can be added via the following filter: 
 Eight_Day_Week\Print_Issue_Columns\pi_columns. Note that this is a convenience filter, the base filter is <code>manage_edit-print-issue_columns</code>. See <code>includes/functions/print-issue-columns.php</code> for sample usage.
Article Export
The export of posts in a Print Issue is highly customizable, from the file name of the zip, to the file name of the individual files, to the contents of the files themselves. The best reference would be to read through <code>includes/functions/plugins/article-export.php</code>. <a href="https://github.com/10up/eight-day-week/wiki/Sample-Eight-Day-Week-filters-for-the-Observer" rel="nofollow ugc">Here’s</a> a few examples used on the Observer.
Sample Eight Day Week filters for the Observer
Examples from Observer’s eight-day-week-filters.php:
<pre><code><?php

add_filter( 'Eight_Day_Week\Plugins\Article_Export\xml_outer_elements', function( $elements, $article ) {
 $elements['subHeadline'] = get_post_meta( $article->ID, 'nyo_dek', true );
 return $elements;
}, 10, 2 );

add_filter( 'Eight_Day_Week\Plugins\Article_Export\xml_outer_elements', function( $elements, $article ) {
 if( function_exists( '\Eight_Day_Week\Plugins\Article_Byline\get_article_byline' ) ) {
 $elements['byline'] = \Eight_Day_Week\Plugins\Article_Byline\get_article_byline( $article );
 }
 return $elements;
}, 10, 2 );

add_filter( 'Eight_Day_Week\Plugins\Article_Export\xpath_extract', function( $extract ) {
 $extract[] = [
 'tag_name' => 'pullQuote',
 'container' => 'pullQuotes',
 'query' => '//p[contains(@class, "pullquote")]'
 ];
 return $extract;
} );

add_filter( 'Eight_Day_Week\Plugins\Article_Export\dom', function ( $dom ) {
 $swap_tag_name = 'emphasized';

 $extract_map = [
 'strong' => [
 'solo' => 'bold',
 'inner' => 'em'
 ],
 'em' => [
 'solo' => 'italics',
 'inner' => 'strong'
 ],
 ];

 foreach ( $extract_map as $tag_name => $map ) {
 $nodes = $dom->getElementsByTagName( $tag_name );
 $length = $nodes->length;

 for ( $i = $length; -- $i >= 0; ) {
 $el = $nodes->item( $i );
 $emphasized = $el->getElementsByTagName( $map['inner'] );
 if ( $emphasized->length ) {
 $em = $dom->createElement( $swap_tag_name );
 $em->nodeValue = $el->nodeValue;
 try {
 $el->parentNode->replaceChild( $em, $el );
 } catch ( \Exception $e ) {

 }
 continue;
 }

 $new = $dom->createElement( $map['solo'] );
 $new->nodeValue = $el->nodeValue;
 try {
 $el->parentNode->replaceChild( $new, $el );
 } catch ( \Exception $e ) {

 }

 }

 }

 return $dom;

} );
</code></pre>
<h3>Known Caveats/Issues</h3>
Gutenberg exports 
Gutenberg-based exports include some additional metadata/details that a Classic Editor-based export does not. <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/key-concepts/#delimiters-and-parsing-expression-grammar" rel="nofollow ugc">Gutenberg stores block data in HTML comments</a>, so you’ll notice those comments (in the form of <code></code>) appearing in the Eight Day Week XML export. Note that the XML is still valid–you can test and confirm that yourself using an <a href="https://www.xmlvalidation.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">XML validator</a>–though depending on your version of InDesign you may get different results upon importing a Gutenberg export compared to a Classic Editor export. Our testing showed that those HTML comments in a Gutenberg export did not affect the import into InDesign however. You can test how this works in your version of InDesign with these sample XML files: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/10up/eight-day-week/BlockEditor-sample.xml" rel="nofollow ugc">Gutenberg XML</a>, <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/10up/eight-day-week/ClassicEditor-sample.xml" rel="nofollow ugc">Classic Editor XML</a>. You can also test how this works with full ZIP exports of Print Issues containing a <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/10up/eight-day-week/BlockEditor-SampleExport.zip" rel="nofollow ugc">Block Editor sample</a> or a <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/10up/eight-day-week/ClassicEditor-SampleExport.zip" rel="nofollow ugc">Classic Editor sample</a>.

Eight Day Week Print Workflow

Optimize publication workflows by using WordPress as your print CMS

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