PublishPress Revisions: Duplicate Posts, Submit, Approve and Schedule Content Changes
PublishPress Revisions: Duplicate Posts, Submit, Approve and Schedule Content Changes
Description
PublishPress Revisions is the ultimate tool for making content changes. Users get a safe space to work on content updates. When the changes are ready, they can ask for approval to publish the update. Administrators can approve or reject the changes. They can also schedule them to go live in the future.
Your users can update posts using the normal WordPress editor, but their changes will not be published automatically. Instead, the changes are stored in a “Revision Queue”. The changes can be approved, rejected or scheduled. PublishPress Revisions works with the familiar WordPress interface, including Gutenberg and the Classic Editor.
PublishPress Revisions Pro
Upgrade to Revisions Pro
This plugin is the free version of the Revisions Pro plugin. The Free version of PublishPress Revisions supports the WordPress core. The Pro version of PublishPress Revisions supports ACF, Yoast SEO, PODS, WooCommerce, WPML, Elementor, Beaver Builder, and many more plugins and themes. Click here to purchase the best premium WordPress content update plugin now!
Submit Change Requests for Posts
PublishPress Revisions allows your users to submit change requests for published posts. Your users can update posts using the normal WordPress editor, but their changes will not be published automatically. Instead, the changes are stored as a “pending revision” that can be approved or rejected.
Click here to see how to submit revisions.
Schedule Future Updates to Posts
PublishPress Revisions allows you to schedule WordPress revisions to be published in the future. When you’re editing a published post, all you need to do is select a future date and click “Schedule Revision”. Your changes will be published at the specified time.
Click here to see how to schedule revisions.
Manage and Moderate Changes to Content
After you create a revision with PublishPress Revisions, you can find that revision on the Revision Queue screen. This screen shows you all the revisions that have been submitted for approval. Underneath each duplicate post you can choose from several moderation tools: Edit, Delete, Preview and Compare.
Click here to see how to manage and moderate revisions.
Compare Current and Former Versions
Pending and Scheduled Revisions can include changes to post content, categories, tags, featured image, page parent and other options. Each of these changes can be reviewed in the familiar Compare Revisions interface.
Click here to see how to compare revisions.
Frontend Moderation of Content Changes
It is possible to preview and moderate revisions via the frontend of your WordPress site. If you click Preview for a pending revision, you’ll see a toolbar across the frontend of the site. This toolbar will change color so you can easily know the status of the revision. For example, if you’re looking at a pending revision, the toolbar will be green. For scheduled revisions, the toolbar will be grey.
Click here to see how to manage from the frontend of your site.
Email Notifications for Revisions
PublishPress Revisions will notify Administrators and Editors when a new revision is submitted. They can log in to preview, compare and approve the changes. PublishPress Revisions can also send emails for revision approval and publication. The Settings screen lets you disable unwanted notifications.
Click here for more on revision notifications.
Additional Plugins Supported in the Pro Version
Page builder / front end editing integrations:
- BeaverBuilder integration
- Divi Theme, Divi Builder integration
- Elementor integration
Major plugins we maintain compatibility with:
- Advanced Custom Fields
- Pods
- WPML
- The Events Calendar
- WooCommerce
- Yoast SEO
Click here for the full list of supported plugins in the Pro version.
You Can Set Very Detailed Revision Permissions
PublishPress Revisions works with the default WordPress user roles, and also introduces a Revisor role:
- Contributors can submit revisions to their own published posts.
- Revisors can submit revisions to posts and pages published by others.
- Authors, Editors and Administrators can approve revisions or schedule their own revisions.
To schedule changes to a published post, just set the desired future date before hitting Update.
By upgrading to Revisions Pro, you also gain advanced permissions control through the PublishPress Permissions Pro plugin. You can customize permissions by role or per-user, granting full editing or revision submission rights to specific posts, categories, or taxonomy terms.
Click here for more on revision permissions.
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 ten 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 restricted content and 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.
- PublishPress Statuses Pro enables you to create additional publishing steps for your posts.
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 Revisions 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.
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Screenshots
Schedule Revisions: PublishPress Revisions allows you to schedule WordPress revisions to be published in the future.
Control Revision Permissions: PublishPress Revisions allows you to control which users are able to submit revisions to published posts.
Submit Revisions: PublishPress Revisions enables you to submit change requests for published posts.
Preview and Compare Revisions: Every requested change can be reviewed in the normal "Compare Revisions" interface in WordPress.
Manage and Moderate Revisions: PublishPress Revisions has a Revision Queue screen where you can search, approve, or deny changes to a published post's content.
Email Notifications for Revisions: Administrators and Editors are notified by email when a new revision is submitted. PublishPress Revisions can also send emails for revision approval and publication.
Support for Plugins: Revisions Pro adds support for the plugins such as Yoast SEO, WooCommrce and Advanced Custom Fields.
Divi, Beaver Builder Integration: With Revisions Pro, your Contributors and Revisors will be able to submit revisions to published content using the front end editor of the Divi theme or Beaver Builder plugin.
WPML Integration: With Revisions Pro, pending and scheduled revisions work in multi-language sites controlled by the WPML plugin.
Advanced Permissions: By upgrading to Revisions Pro, you also gain advanced permissions control through Permissions Pro. Customize permissions by role or per-user.
Faq
PublishPress Revisions can duplicate pages and any other post types. For example, to duplicate pages, go to the “Pages” screen in WordPress and click “New Revision” next to any page. You will be taken to a duplicate page that you can edit and save to the Revision Queue.
WooCommerce is the most popular way to build a WordPress eCommerce site. With PublishPress Revisions Pro you can submit, moderate, approve and schedule revisions to your WooCommerce products.
When you are on the “Products” screen, click the “New Revision” link. Inside the product revision, the PublishPress buttons will appear in the top-right corner. When you save the product, it will appear on the main “Revision Queue” screen.
It is possible to schedule updates to WooCommerce products.
- While updating a post or page created with Elementor, click “Immediately” in the right sidebar.
- Choose the new date for these changes to go live.
- Click the “Update Revision” button.
All key WooCommerce fields are supported by PublishPress Revisions Pro. If you are using 3rd party WooCommerce plugins, we do recommend testing their compatibility with WordPress revisions and PublishPress Revisions Pro.
Click here for more on duplicate WooCommerce products.
PublishPress Revisions Pro has support for the Elementor plugin.
Here’s how to use PublishPress Revisions and Elementor together:
- Find and a published post or page that was created with Elementor.
- You will see a “New revision” link.
- On the next screen, you can click “Edit with Elementor” to make changes.
- You can use “Submit Revision” in the right sidebar to submit your changes.
- In the WordPress admin area, you can go to visit the “Revision Queue” screen and you will see the submitted revision of your Elementor page. It will be waiting for your approval.
It is possible to schedule content updates to Elementor posts.
- While updating a post or page created with Elementor, click “Immediately” in the right sidebar.
- Choose the new date for these changes to go live.
- Click the “Update Revision” button.
Click here for more on duplicate Elementor posts.
The Events Calendar plugin is one the most popular ways to create and list events in WordPress. PublishPress Revisions Pro and The Events Calendar work together successfully.
- Make sure you are using the Gutenberg option for creating events.
- After installing PublishPress Revisions Pro, you will be able to submit revisions to events using the New Revision option on the main Events screen.
- You will see the normal Event screen, but with additional PublishPress Revisions button in the top-right corner.
- Your event revisions will appear in the “Revision Queue”.
- You will not be able to use the “Compare” link because The Events Calendar does not support that WordPress feature yet. However, all the other key features of PublishPress Revisions Pro will work. For example, PublishPress Revisions Pro will record changes to all your event fields and settings.
Click here for more on duplicate The Events Calendar events.
PublishPress Revisions Pro has support for the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin. You can schedule, moderate and approve revisions for content that uses ACF.
- To create a revision for post that use ACF, click on the “New Revision” link.
- Go to the “Revision Queue”.
- Click “Edit” and you can update the revision, including the ACF fields.
- Click “Compare” and you can see what’s changed in this revision. The “Compare” screen will show you any changes that have happened with ACF Fields.
Click here for more on duplicate posts with Advanced Custom Fields.
PublishPress Revisions Pro has support for the WPML plugin. For example, you can create revisions for a post in English and create separate revisions for the Spanish translation of that post.
- Go to your “Posts” screen.
- Click “New Revisions” and you can create a translated version of your content in any language.
Click here for more on duplicate posts with WPML.
Yoast SEO is the most popular SEO plugin in WordPress. With PublishPress Revisions Pro you can submit, moderate, approve and schedule revisions to your WordPress posts, and they will keep all your SEO data.
In the image below, you can Yoast SEO data. With PublishPress Revisions Pro you enter this data and it will be saved throughout the revision approval process.
Click here for more on duplicate posts with Yoast SEO.
PublishPress Revisions Pro has support for the Beaver Builder plugin. Here’s how to use PublishPress Revisions Pro and Beaver Builder together:
- In your WordPress admin area, click “New Revision” for a post or page that uses Beaver Builder.
- On the next screen, you will be able to click “Launch Beaver Builder” and create a new version of this post.
- Click “Submit Revision” to submit your updates.
- In the WordPress admin area, you can visit the “Revision Queue” screen and you will see the submitted revision of your Beaver Builder page. It will be waiting for your approval.
It is also possible to schedule revisions to Beaver Builder content.
- When you’re editing a revision, click “Immediately”.
- Choose the date you want your post changes to go live.
- Click the “Submit Revision” button.
Click here for more on duplicate posts with Beaver Builder.
Divi is one of the most popular page-builders in WordPress, and it does integrate with PublishPress Revisions Pro. It is possible for lower-level users to edit a page with Divi and submit an update for approval. This workflow will apply to anyone with the correct permissions to submit revisions.
- In your WordPress admin area, click “New Revision” for a post or page that uses Divi.
- You will see the normal editing layout in Divi, with the PublishPress Revisions buttons in the top toolbar and right sidebar. Click “Edit With The Divi Builder” to make content changes.
Click here for more on duplicate posts with Divi.
Please report security bugs found in the source code of the PublishPress Revisions plugin through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin.
Reviews
This plugin solved my problem
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This plugin solved my problem. I am undertaking a massive revision of all my articles and various content, and finally, I can work on an article multiple times without being forced to revise and publish it all at once. For me, it was the ideal solution.
Excellent
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I've been using Revisions every day for five years and have found it excellent. Tech support is fast, courteous and knowledgeable. Couldn't get along without it.
Truly excellent support and high-functioning plugins
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We utilize several different PublishPress plugins on our website. The level of customization that they provide is simply unparalleled. Other solutions to our needs would take days to weeks of work to set up and far too much time to maintain. PublishPress has really simplified our processes and proven themselves to be critical to our website's functionality. I highly recommend them to anybody looking at any of their plugins.
Their support is also excellent. Recently, an update to a couple of their plugins added some features. Our poor configuration (my fault) led to those changes breaking our revision process. After weeks of trying to figure it out myself, I reached out to PublishPress support. They were quick to help and offer ideas, even without having a full picture of the problem. After a bit, I was able to get a duplicate site set up that they could test on. Kevin and Riza spent (I'm sure) quite a bit of time working through our configuration and coming up with a simple solution for us. It might not sound like much, but it saved me weeks of frustration and confusion. I couldn't be happier with them.
Fatal error: Couldn't work with it.
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I am seeing a fatal error on my site when I installed PublishPress Revisions. I removed all plugins and themes from my install. Here are the details.
WordPress version 6.3.6
Active theme: OceanWP (version 4.1.2)
Current plugin: PublishPress Revisions (version 3.7.11)
PHP version 7.4.33
Fantastic!
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Brilliant plugin for us non-pro webdevs. I find this approach suits me better to the "duplicate, edit then switch the slug" amateur approach.
Highly recommended, especially if you're still learning WordPress.
Works! But mistakes are too easy to make.
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Only thing of its kind that seems to work, which is wonderful. However, setup and editing are cumbersome the the process has multiple steps that can seem convoluted. Mistakes are easy to make.
Impressed with the courteous support.
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I really appreciate their prompt and courteous support, even for users like me who lack technical knowledge and aren't good at asking questions. This makes me want to continue using their services for a long time. I'm also satisfied that we could communicate effectively even though we used translation software from Japan for our interactions.
Perfect for my 6 a.m. fiveforks.com/Wordle updates
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I keep up the very popular (15,000 users per day) www.fiveforks.com/Wordle past answers list. It is important that I don't publish the latest word until 6 a.m. the next day so as not to be a SPOILER for anyone in Hawaii. Now I can schedule the update the day before and sleep in!
Saves a lot of grief
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Being able to schedule revisions is crucial for my site, this makes it so easy. Wonderful plugin.
works great, thank you
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works great, thank you
Changelog
The full changelog can be found on GitHub.