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Your older posts can quickly become out-of-date and require editing to provide up-to-date information. 
For instance, posts at medical sites might require regular reviews to make sure they’re keeping up with the latest research. 
Spritz keeps track of when each post needs to be reviewed. 
When the time arrives, the post is marked as needing review and an optional email is sent to the admin user. 
You can adjust the timing on a per-post basis if you want: some posts might require monthly reviews, others might only need them yearly. 
A listing page shows the current state of each post. 
You can even subject the review to a further approval step if you want.
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<h3>Configuration</h3>
A post can be in one of the following states: NEUTRAL, AWAITING_REVIEW, REVIEWED, NEEDS_WORK, APPROVED, or DISAPPROVED. 
Each post has a “Next action date”. 
If the post is in REVIEWED or APPROVED state, it’s moved into AWAITING_REVIEW state on the “Next action date”. 
Then, it’s expected that an admin will put the post into the REVIEWED or APPROVED state. After an admin does that, the timer starts over again. 
Of course, an admin could also put the post into the NEEDS_WORK or DISAPPROVED state, 
but what happens in that case is beyond the scope of this plugin.
<h3>Details</h3>
Screenshot 1 shows the sidebar where you set the state of your posts. 
At the top it shows the current state, the next action date, and the note on the current state. 
Below that, you can set the new state and provide notes. 
To add the new state, you have to check the confirm checkbox and save the post. 
At the bottom you can override the settings just for this post, see below.
Screenshot 2 shows the settings screen. 
If you check ‘Automatically approve posts’, any time a post is put into the REVIEWED state, 
it will automatically be moved into the APPROVED state. If you don’t check that, an admin 
will need to move it into the APPROVED state manually. 
‘Number of days’ controls the timer. 
The other settings are for the email that’s sent out when a post is moved into the AWAITING_REVIEW state. 
If you don’t fill out all three email fields, no email will be sent out.
Referring back to Screenshot 1, you can override settings on a per-post basis. 
For instance, you might want some posts to be reviewed more frequently than others. 
You can also change the auto-approval settings. 
As with setting the new state, you have to check the confirm checkbox to have the overrides saved.
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
Three shortcodes are provided: [spritz_post_status], [spritz_post_note], and [spritz_post_nextreviewdate]. 
If used on a post, those show the current status of the post, the last note, and the next review date. 
If used on something other than a post, nothing is shown.
<h3>Multiple Roles</h3>
If you have multiple roles that will review posts, you’ll need to install one of the many 
member plugins that are available. 
Screenshot 4 is from one of those plugins. 
Only roles with the ‘spritz_edit_settings’ permission can change the global settings. 
Only roles with the ‘spritz_override_post_settings’ permission can override those global settings on a per-post basis. 
The other permissions are of the form ‘spritz_transition_from_X_to_Y’. 
You may decide that users of a certain role can move a post from REVIEWED to NEEDS_WORK but not vice versa, and so on.
<h3>Customizations</h3>
If you’d like a customization for a reasonable fee, please contact us with the details: 
https://wisdomtree.dev/contact/feedback
<h3>Support future development</h3>
Your generous support will help support new versions: 
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<h3>Additional Documentation</h3>

Spritz

Spritz reminds you to review or refresh your WordPress posts on a regular basis.

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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.

Spritz vs Editorial Workflow Manager