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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 post list table, sidebar, post status panel, and 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>Template duplication – clone checklist templates and customize the copy.</li>
<li>Curated starter templates – includes Blog SEO, News Fact-Check, Accessibility Review, and Client Approval templates.</li>
<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>Helper text + reference links – add plain guidance text and an optional reference URL to each checklist item.</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>wp-admin post list Readiness column for mapped post types</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>Curated starter templates included on activation and upgrade.</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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MagicChecklists lets you create custom checklists that can be accessed from anywhere on your WordPress site. Use them for onboarding, task management, content publishing workflows and more.
Core Features:
<ul>
<li>Classic Checklists – Create checklists with drag-and-drop item ordering, priorities, deadlines and multi-level nesting</li>
<li>Publisher Checklists – Enforce publishing requirements for selected post types</li>
<li>Kanban Board – Visualize and manage checklist tasks with drag-and-drop columns, user assignment and due dates</li>
<li>Guided Tours – Build interactive step-by-step tours to guide users through your WordPress site (frontend and backend)</li>
<li>Shortcode Support – Embed checklists anywhere using shortcodes, with both list and kanban display modes</li>
<li>Floating Buttons – Trigger checklists via floating buttons, keyboard shortcuts or both</li>
<li>Granular Access Control – Set permissions per user role, individual user or public access</li>
<li>Analytics Dashboard – Track checklist completion rates, user engagement and performance metrics</li>
<li>API & Webhooks – REST API endpoints and webhook integrations with Slack, Discord and custom endpoints</li>
<li>Import / Export – Export checklists to JSON, PDF or TXT and import them across sites</li>
<li>Dashboard Widget – Display checklist status directly on the WordPress dashboard</li>
<li>Dark Mode – Full dark mode support throughout the admin interface</li>
<li>Internationalization – Fully translatable with German and French translations included</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin allows users to configure webhook integrations with the following third-party services:
<h4>Slack</h4>
When configured by the site administrator, checklist events (item checked, deadline approaching, etc.) can send notifications to a Slack channel via incoming webhooks. The webhook URL is provided by the user and data is only sent when webhook notifications are enabled. 
* Data sent: checklist name, item text, event type, timestamp 
* <a href="https://slack.com/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Slack Terms of Service</a> 
* <a href="https://slack.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Slack Privacy Policy</a>
<h4>Discord</h4>
When configured by the site administrator, checklist events can send notifications to a Discord channel via webhooks. The webhook URL is provided by the user and data is only sent when webhook notifications are enabled. 
* Data sent: checklist name, item text, event type, timestamp 
* <a href="https://discord.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Discord Terms of Service</a> 
* <a href="https://discord.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Discord Privacy Policy</a>
No data is sent to any external service unless the site administrator explicitly configures and enables webhook integrations.
<h3>Source Code</h3>
The compiled JavaScript files in the <code>dist/</code> directory are built from the source files in the <code>src/</code> directory using Vite.
The full source code is available at: <a href="https://github.com/Kasoria/magicchecklists" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/Kasoria/magicchecklists</a>
To build from source:
<ol>
<li>Clone the repository</li>
<li>Run <code>npm install</code> to install dependencies</li>
<li>Run <code>npm run build</code> to compile the production assets</li>
</ol>

MagicChecklists

Create interactive checklists, kanban boards and guided tours in the WordPress backend and frontend.

Editorial Workflow Manager vs MagicChecklists