PublishPress Checklists: Pre-Publishing Approval Task Checklist for WordPress Content

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PublishPress Checklists is the best plugin to make sure your content is ready to go live. With PublishPress Checklists, you can choose pre-publishing requirements for your content. Using PublishPress Checklists, you define tasks that must be completed before content is published. Let’s show you a few possible options for your posts: Ensure your posts have a minimum or maximum number of words. Require your posts have a featured image. Check for any broken links. Force authors to use a specific number of Tags or Categories. Require posts to be approved by a user in a specific role. Next to every post and page, writers see a checklist box, showing the tasks they need to complete. Tasks can either be recommended or required. As authors complete each task, the red X automatically turns to a green checkmark. PublishPress Checklists Pro Checklists Pro This plugin is the free version of the Checklists Pro plugin that comes with all the features you need to set standards for your WordPress content. Click here to purchase the best premium WordPress checklists plugin now! You Can Set These Checklist Requirements Each task on your pre-publish checklist can be configured to meet your site’s needs. You can also set maximum and minimum values. Read the Getting Started guide for PublishPress Checklists. Here are the default tasks you can use on your checklists: Title: Maximum or minimum number of characters Body text: Maximum or minimum number of words Categories: Maximum or minimum number of categories Tags: Maximum or minimum number of tags Taxonomy terms: Maximum or minimum number of terms Excerpt: Maximum or minimum number of characters Internal links: Maximum or minimum number of internal links External links: Maximum or minimum number of external links Featured image: Require a featured image Featured image size (Pro version): Require a maximum and minimum height and width for featured images ALT text: Require ALT text for all images Broken links: Check that all links use a valid format Permalink: Control the characters in the URL User approval: Require that posts are approved by users in a specific role Yoast SEO: Require that posts get Yoast SEO approval You can configure each requirement, depending on whether you want to require writers to complete the tasks. Here are the three options: Disabled Recommended Required If you choose the “Required” option, it will be impossible to publish without completing the task. You Can Create New Checklist Requirements You can create new requirements for your checklists by clicking the “Add custom task” link. For example, you can require authors to get a green Yoast sign, or force them to run a spell-check before publishing. Click here to see how to create custom requirements. It is also possible to create more powerful requirements using a custom plugin. We have created a sample plugin to show how to do this. The sample plugin will automatically check that your site’s authors have included a specific word in their main content. If this new requirement is enabled, it will automatically search the text of your content to make sure it contains the word you choose. Pro Version: Checklists for WooCommerce Products The Pro version of PublishPress Checklists has support for WooCommerce. There are all the requirements you can choose: Number of characters in Excerpt Number of Product tags Number of Product categories Number of words Featured image Check the “Virtual” box Check the “Downloadable” box Enter a “Regular price” Enter a “Sale price” Schedule the “Sale price” Discount for the “Sale price” Enter a “SKU” Check the “Manage stock?” box Check the “Sold individually” box Check the “Allow backorders?” box Select some products for “Upsells” Select some products for “Cross-sells” Product image Click here to read more about WooCommerce checklists. Join PublishPress and get the Pro plugins The Pro versions of the PublishPress plugins are well worth your investment. The Pro versions have extra features and faster support. Click here to join PublishPress. Join PublishPress and you’ll get access to these nince Pro plugins: PublishPress Authors Pro allows you to add multiple authors and guest authors to WordPress posts. PublishPress Blocks Pro has everything you need to build professional websites with the WordPress block editor. PublishPress Capabilities Pro is the plugin to manage your WordPress user roles, permissions, and capabilities. PublishPress Checklists Pro enables you to define tasks that must be completed before content is published. PublishPress Future Pro is the plugin for scheduling changes to your posts. PublishPress Permissions Pro is the plugin for advanced WordPress permissions. PublishPress Planner Pro is the plugin for managing and scheduling WordPress content. PublishPress Revisions Pro allows you to update your published pages with teamwork and precision. PublishPress Series Pro enables you to group content together into a series Together, these plugins are a suite of powerful publishing tools for WordPress. If you need to create a professional workflow in WordPress, with moderation, revisions, permissions and more… then you should try PublishPress. Bug Reports Bug reports for PublishPress Checklists are welcomed in our repository on GitHub. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, and that issues that aren’t properly qualified as bugs will be closed. Follow the PublishPress team Follow PublishPress on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube