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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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secretsource

A plugin that helps keep us from publishing sites with basic configuration errors. It is an automated checklist of common issues in WordPress sites.
Ratify – Your technical seal of approval
This small and unintrusive plugin provides a fast way to spot technical WordPress configuration issues and fixes some of them without being asked. Examples include:
<ul>
<li>verifying that the home page has a valid Title tag</li>
<li>verifying that the site is not blocking robots (Google)</li>
<li>verifying that the site and all assets are being delivered over HTTPS</li>
<li>verifying that the home page is delivered gzipped (compressed)</li>
<li>verifying that images on the home page have ALT attributes
<ul>
<li>that the home page has H1, H2, H3, etc. tags</li>
<li>that the HTML on the home page is valid</li>
<li>that the HTML on the home page has Open Graph tags</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>much, much more</li>
</ul>
In most cases the plugin can improve your Google Lighthouse score simply by installing it.
The story of Ratify
<h3>Why?</h3>
When you create more than 1 site per week (as we have at Secret Source Technology) using a different premium theme on each site, there are dozens or even hundreds of issues that can arise.
The Ratify plugin is our latest attempt at formalizing our quality control. It is our guarantee that a site meets a certain minimum of quality. It greatly reduces the potential for human error and allows you to see at a glance issues the site may be having.
This plugin:
<ul>
<li>Started as a spreadsheet with nearly one hundred line items</li>
<li>Turned into a bash script</li>
<li>Then a bash script with a graphic web front end</li>
<li>Then into Selenium automated test script (for testing forms)</li>
<li>Then into a plugin using the Herbert framework</li>
<li>Then into a plugin using the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate (current version)</li>
</ul>
The plugin structure is very basic and tests can be added simply (if you know how to write object oriented PHP – have a look in the “Models” folder…). In future versions we hope to include additional tests and speed improvements for your site. We are very interested in hearing from users of the plugin so please do not hesitate to contact us with questions / concerns.
Installation
There are no special requirements to install this plugin. Just use the standard WordPress plugin installation routine.
Frequently Asked Questions
(waiting for feedback from users… there are no FAQs at this time)
Screenshots
<ol>
<li>This is a sample report from a site that is not very good</li>
</ol>
Copyright
The “<a href="https://svgsilh.com/image/1966719.html" rel="nofollow ugc">approved</a>” stamp used with permission.
Contributing
We’re following <a href="https://gist.github.com/kasparsd/3749872" rel="nofollow ugc">this gist</a> to use github as the master repository.
If you find an issues with this plugin, please submit tickets using github’s issue tracking system. 
Be sure to state what the problem is, the steps to reproduce, the expected behavior and the actual behavior.
<h3>Helpful Links for Developers</h3>
<ul>
<li>https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/63668/autoloading-namespaces-in-wordpress-plugins-themes-can-it-work</li>
<li>https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/307345/translate-a-constant-while-appeasing-wordpress-phpcs</li>
</ul>
Changelog
1.1.1 – Fixed an issue in which valid headings were failing the headings test 
1.1 – Completely PHPCS valid following all WordPress coding style guidelines. 
1.0.4 – Fixed file names to be PHPCS compliant. Also fixed other phpcs compliance issues throughout 
1.0.3 – Moved the master repository to <a href="https://github.com/SecretSourceWeb/ratify" rel="nofollow ugc">github</a> 
1.0.2 – Fixed some readme formatting 
1.0.1 – Fixed formatting in readme and made it pretty and tweaked the test for Google Analytics (in the prior version) 
1.0 – Initial release

Ratify

A plugin that helps keep us from publishing sites with basic configuration errors. It is an automated checklist of common issues in WordPress sites.

Editorial Workflow Manager vs Ratify