Editorial Workflow Manager – Editorial Checklist for Gutenberg

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.

What you can do

• Create reusable checklist templates (required + optional items).
• Assign different editorial checklists to different post types.
• Track per-post checklist progress in the editor sidebar.
• See readiness and progress in the sidebar, the post status panel, and the pre-publish panel.

Typical use cases

• Blog posts: SEO checks, featured image, categories/tags, internal links, fact check.
• News/Editorial: legal review, source confirmation, editor sign-off checklist.
• Agencies: client approvals checklist, accessibility checks, brand requirements.
• Teams: consistent publishing workflow across authors and editors.

Key features

• Checklist templates – manage reusable checklists as a custom post type.
• Template editor (row-based UI) – add, remove, reorder items; mark each item Required or Optional.
• Required vs Optional items – readiness is based on required items only.
• Per-post checklist state – each post/page stores its own checklist progress.
• Gutenberg / Block Editor sidebar – “Editorial Checklist” panel inside the editor.
• Readiness + progress indicators
  • Sidebar summary with Ready / Incomplete and required progress
  • Post Status panel summary while editing
  • Non-blocking pre-publish warning when required items are missing
• Different checklist per post type – assign templates in Settings.
• Default templates included on activation.
• Backward compatible upgrades – legacy templates still work and upgrade to UUID-based v2 items when saved.

Getting started

1. Go to Checklist Templates → All Templates.
2. Review the default templates or create your own.
3. Edit a template to add items, reorder them, and mark each item as Required or Optional.
4. Go to Settings → Editorial Workflow.
5. Assign a checklist template to each post type you want to support.
6. Edit a post in the block editor and open the Editorial Checklist sidebar.
7. Complete items and watch the readiness/progress summary update.