Sean Hayes

Adds and allows customization of a visual indicator in WordPress admin for the publish state of your content. 
To help you visually organize your content viewing the All Posts screen choose colors for each post status and see your content displayed with those colors
The plugin also allows you to choose the menu location for the plugin settings page (screen shot #2)
Options included letting you choose from it’s own page or a child of either Settings or Tools menus.

Post Status Indicator

Allow color customization in WordPress admin for the publish state of your content.

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Pending Status is a super-simple solution for WordPress sites that need very basic workflow functionality. It’s easy to set up and doesn’t overload your site with unnecessary features.
If you have Contributors who can create, but not publish, their own content on your site, Pending Status notifies you of any pending posts that are ready to review. By default, all users with the Administrator or Editor role will see a Pending Status box on the Dashboard, showing the counts of pending posts, with a convenient link to the list of pending posts for that post type.
Optionally, you can also identify one or more Administrators/Editors to receive email notifications whenever a post is saved with “pending” status. The subject and message of the email are fully editable, and a direct edit link for the post is included in the body of the email.
Pending Status works with all publicly queryable post types: Posts, Pages, and even Custom Post Types created by third party plugins (e.g. WooCommerce, The Events Calendar, etc.), or your own custom code.

Pending Status

Get notified when your site has posts pending review.

Post Status Indicator vs Pending Status