The PublishPress Statuses Plugin is Coming Soon
Update: PublishPress Statuses is now available on WordPress.org.
PublishPress Statuses is a new plugin that we've been working on for almost a year.
Previously, we've had some support for custom statuses in other plugins including PublishPress Planner and PublishPress Permissions.
However, custom statuses are a really important feature for WordPress publishers. We've had numerous requests to improve how statuses work in WordPress. So we've built a new plugin that does nothing except manage custom statuses.
This screenshot below gives you an idea of how PublishPress Statuses will appear on your site:
This is the first release of the plugin and we’re inviting publishers to test. We’d love to hear your feedback.
- Click here to download the latest release from Github.
- Here’s a guide to using PublishPress Statuses.
With this first release, you can create and edit your own custom statuses. This release has support for pre-publication statuses. The “Draft” status is fixed because moving it would break other parts of WordPress. But after “Draft”, you can customize the other workflow steps.
You can choose which users are able to move posts to each status. In this screenshot below, only users in the Administrator role can move content to the “Assigned” status.
Table of Contents
Video Introduction to PublishPress Statuses
What's next for PublishPress Statuses?
We’re waiting for approval from the WordPress.org plugin team. Once the plugin is on WordPress.org, we’ll be able to do a formal release.
There’s also a bunch of other features that are ready to go. However, they rely on integrations with other plugins, so we’ll release them once this new plugin is approved on the WordPress plugin repository. Those features include:
- Create different workflows for different post types.
- Choose who can edit content in each status (integration with PublishPress Capabilities).
- Custom statuses for revisions so you can moderate content changes (integration with PublishPress Revisions).
- Custom statuses for published content (integration with PublishPress Permissions).
The Best Plugin to Create Workflows for Your WordPress Content
PublishPress Statuses allows you to add custom statuses for your posts. You can use these statuses to create custom publishing workflows.
The Best Plugin to Approve and Schedule Changes to Your WordPress Posts
PublishPress Revisions is the ultimate tool for making content changes in WordPress. This plugin offers a safe space for users to work on content updates.
The Best Plugin to Plan and Manage Your WordPress content
PublishPress Planner has all the tools you need to plan and schedule WordPress content, including a Content Calendar, Kanban Board, editorial notifications and more.
The Best Plugin to Control Access to Your WordPress Content
PublishPress Permissions allows you to enable or deny access to posts, pages, categories, tags and more. You can control who can view and edit your WordPress content.
The Best Plugin to Control Your WordPress Users
PublishPress Capabilities enables you to customize what users see in every area of WordPress from editing posts and pages to admin menus, profile pages.
Went ahead and installed it to try it out. Then:
“To use PublishPress Statuses, please upgrade PublishPress Plannner to version 4.0-beta4 or higher.
To use PublishPress Statuses, please upgrade PublishPress Permissions Pro to version 4.0-beta8 or higher.
To use PublishPress Statuses, please upgrade PublishPress Capabilities Pro to version 2.11-beta2 or higher.”
Hey Ivan. Yes, that’s true sadly. It needs to be installed by itself for now. As soon as WordPress.org approves the plugin, we can update our other plugins to be compatible. We’re between a rock and a hard place until that approval.
Sorry, are you saying we can’t use any other publishpress plugins alongside this? We can’t have access to the beta releases of the other plugins?
Hi Rajive. Sure, we can do that. Send an email to [email protected] and we’ll make it work.
Waiting for WordPress.org approval is not much fun normally, but it’s an extra headache here because Statues will integrate with our other plugins. There’s no easy way to handle this before the approval.