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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.

Nicolas Korobochkin

katyabazilevskaya

kolobaeva

Averin Sasha

Sergey Khabaroff

Igor Kuznetsov

Setka

kateginger

Paul Kutuzov

baluev

Tanya Gorelik

kolesnikovsetkaio

yakunichev

Dmitry Kovalevsky

Sabina Khasanova

Setka Workflow for WordPress allows you to fully integrate your WordPress site with Setka Workflow. Developed by content experts, Setka Workflow is a great tool for managing media and content teams.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Export WordPress post categories directly to Setka Workflow. 
Any post categories created in WordPress are automatically exported to Workflow, allowing for seamless organization of content.</li>
<li>Sync ticket and post statuses. 
Tasks (or tickets) created in Setka Workflow are automatically marked as complete once published from WordPress.</li>
<li>Create and edit posts for any task created in Setka Workflow in WordPress. 
Get direct access to content in WordPress from any ticket in your Workflow Dashboard.</li>
</ul>
<h4>About Setka Workflow</h4>
Setka Workflow allows you to track your content production from start to finish. Choose the best ideas, plan articles, keep track of budgets and analyze results. Setka Workflow has been developed specifically for media and content teams of all sizes.
<blockquote>
Setka Workflow greatly contributed to developing our content production concept and online publishing strategy. Moreover, it helped to better adjust workload for our authors, make cost-benefit analysis and monitor budget allocation activity in detail.
KinoPoisk
</blockquote>
<h4>Setka Workflow Features</h4>
Ticket: the best way to set a task
Ticket is a dedicated card for any content that is being worked on. It allows you to see progress and set deadlines without scheduling a status meeting.
Dashboard: plan your content daily, weekly or monthly
Dashboard is a task manager with calendar view to manage all editorial tasks.
Tags: color-coded task stages
Color tags indicate the stages and editorial changes of content being created.
Budget: all figures unscrambled
Get a complete overview of all your expenses, salaries and other fees over any period of time. Track and ensure your money is being spent efficiently.
Team: conveniently manage the most valuable resource
Organize a staff database to manage full-time specialists, freelancers and experts. Create teams and assign individual rights for every team member.
Website and third-party tools integration
Setka Workflow is API and RSS friendly and integrates with Google Analytics, Onthe.io and other analytical services; Amplifr (social network posting service), Slack and YouTube.
Ideas: have a range of ideas to choose from
Ideas represent a list of topics for the future articles or inspiration. Any team member can add their ideas and vote for their favorites.
<blockquote>
Setka Workflow has become a perfect assistant — as all the moves are calculated ahead, which considerably boosts our productivity. We’ve become fluent users of this service within a day.
Afisha Daily
</blockquote>
<h4>About Setka</h4>
Setka’s innovative content management tools were born, tested, and refined in Look At Media, one of Russia’s leading digital media companies. Its web publications boast more than 7 million unique monthly visitors.
In 2014 Setka became an independent software company focused on building state-of-the-art tools that make content creation easy, beautiful, and accessible to everyone. Our tools include Setka Workflow, Setka Editor and Setka Stream.
In the past two years, more than 300 brands and 100 editors have used Setka’s publishing products to create award-winning content and advertising experiences including giants like Conde Nast.
We consider ourselves part of the WordPress community and regularly take part in Wordcamp events across the world.

Setka Workflow — manage the editorial process, track content production

Setka Workflow makes it easy to manage the content creation process.

Editorial Workflow Manager vs Setka Workflow — manage the editorial process, track content production