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Edit Flow

by Automattic

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Description

Edit Flow empowers you to collaborate with your editorial team inside WordPress. We’ve made it modular so you can customize it to your needs:

  • Calendar – A convenient month-by-month look at your content.
  • Custom Statuses – Define the key stages to your workflow.
  • Editorial Comments – Threaded commenting in the admin for private discussion between writers and editors.
  • Editorial Metadata – Keep track of the important details.
  • Notifications – Receive timely updates on the content you’re following.
  • Story Budget – View your upcoming content budget.
  • User Groups – Keep your users organized by department or function.

More details for each feature, screenshots and documentation can be found on our website.

We’d love to hear from you! For support questions, feedback and ideas, please use the WordPress.org forums, which we look at often. If you’d like to contribute code, we’d love to have you involved.

The easiest way to install this plugin is to go to Add New in the Plugins section of your blog admin and search for “Edit Flow.” On the far right side of the search results, click “Install.”

If the automatic process above fails, follow these simple steps to do a manual install:

  1. Extract the contents of the zip file into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Write and enjoy the merits of a structured editorial workflow!
  1. The calendar is a convenient month-by-month look at your content. Filter to specific statuses or categories to drill down.

    The calendar is a convenient month-by-month look at your content. Filter to specific statuses or categories to drill down.

  2. Custom statuses allow you to define the key stages of your workflow.

    Custom statuses allow you to define the key stages of your workflow.

  3. Editorial comments allow for private discussion between writers and editors on a post-by-post basis.

    Editorial comments allow for private discussion between writers and editors on a post-by-post basis.

  4. Keep track of the important details with editorial metadata.

    Keep track of the important details with editorial metadata.

  5. View all of your upcoming posts with the more traditional story budget view, and hit the print button to take it to your planning meeting.

    View all of your upcoming posts with the more traditional story budget view, and hit the print button to take it to your planning meeting.

Does Edit Flow work with multisite?

Yep, in the sense that you can activate Edit Flow on each subsite. Edit Flow doesn’t yet offer the ability to manage content across a network of sites.

Edit Flow doesn’t do X, Y, and Z. That makes me sad.

All development happens on GitHub.

For support questions, feedback and ideas, please use the WordPress.org forums, which we look at often. For everything else, say hello@editflow.org.

1st update in two years produces fatal errors

By cpjmooney on April 12, 2024

..was this release an accident? no accompanying changelog, kills the site with this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'int' (T_STRING), expecting function (T_FUNCTION) or const (T_CONST) in /opt/rh/httpd24/root/var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/edit-flow/modules/calendar/calendar.php on line 25


xargs: sh: exited with status 255; aborting

Awesome for Large Content Sites!

By mchelles on April 7, 2022

I can't believe I just discovered this plugin today - I've been needing something like this for years. It's exactly everything an online publisher could want for creating, managing, and organizing large amounts of content. The custom post status, the internal notes - it's really just fantastic - THANK YOU!

Application service experience

By Edwin Muchiri Kibuti (muchiri124) on April 28, 2020

Thank you for continuing to upgrade EditFlow

By Jerry Zurek (jzurek) on January 13, 2019

Our college newspaper has used EditFlow for as long as it has been in existence and we're grateful you keep improving it.

Does not work in combination with Gutenberg

By Pieter Daalder (WiZZarD_) on August 16, 2018

Great plugin, logical interface. But there are two huge downsides:
  • No active support from the developers
  • It does not work on Gutenberg
So if you're not working with Gutenberg (which will be the default editor in WP 5.0) and you have no need for support: go for it! Great plugin! In all other cases: find something better, and let me know what you've found, I need a replacement as well 😉

Love this plugin

By BobWP (BobDunn-Trainer) on June 23, 2018

Been using it for awhile after I stopped a subscription that did both editorial and social. Used another plugin for social and knew of this one. So gave it a run and it does exactly what I need. I create and work on several posts at once and currently post 6 out of 7 days. I need something that keeps me on track. I particularly like the metadata that really keep me on track. Incredible value for a free plugin!

Imprescindible

By Jes?s Pernas (jpernas) on February 15, 2018

Este plugin es de gran ayuda para gestionar el calendario editorial en un blog personal, pero cuando se utiliza en un sitio con varios autores o con autores invitados se vuelve imprescindible.

Conflict with WPML plugin

By Renaat (rsioncke) on January 16, 2018

This plugin caused a problem with the WPML translation plugin. I waited two weeks for a support response. Nothing, no support, nor reply. Other editorial calendars don't show this conflict.

Good but...

By GemmaW on November 25, 2017

When I deactivate the plugin, it removes my posts. Not good, so I knocked off 2 stars for this. Why is this important? If I decided to move to another solution, this is bad news.

Unable to Activate

By suzettefranck on October 24, 2017

I have a fresh install with no plugins and Twenty Seventeen and I get this error when I try to activate the plugin: The plugin does not have a valid header. Is this plugin dead?

See CHANGELOG.md for the full changelog.

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