PublishPress Checklists Pro 2.0 is Now Available
Do you care about creating great content with WordPress?
Now there's a plugin that allows you to ensure all your content meets your high standards.
We've just released version 2.0 of the PublishPress Checklists plugin.
This version is now a stand-alone plugin. It also has full support for WooCommerce products, and it can be white-labelled.
How to Update to Checklists 2.0
If you already use the Checklists plugin, updating should involve only two or three steps:
- Update to version 1.4.7.1.
- Update to version 2.0.0.
- Disable the old WooCommerce Checklist plugin you previously had installed.
After updating, you will see a new “Checklists” link in the WordPress admin menu:
What is PublishPress Checklists?
Using PublishPress Checklists, you can define tasks that must be complete before content is published.
For example, you can make sure your posts have a minimum or maximum number of words. Or you can ensure that all your posts have a featured image. Or you can force authors to use a specific number of Tags or Categories.
This image below shows a Checklist inside a WordPress post:
PublishPress Checklists also supports the pre-publish panel in Gutenberg. So if you click “Publish”, you will see the requirements before you publish:
Inside the Checklists > Settings menu link, you can choose your requirements. Here are the default requirements.
- Check that the Excerpt has text
- Require a maximum or minimum number of categories
- Require a maximum or minimum number of tags
- Require a maximum or minimum number of words
- Require a featured image
Every task has four different options:
- Disabled
- Recommended: show only in the sidebar
- Recommended: show in the sidebar and before publishing
- Required
If you choose the “Required” option, it will be impossible to publish without completing the task.
It's possible to create new items for the checklists by clicking the “Add custom item” link. For example, you can require authors to get a green Yoast sign, or force them to run a spell-check before publishing.
Also, I'll note that you can create different checklists for different post types. So your checklist for Posts can look very different from your checklist for Pages.
The Pro version of Checklists comes with support for WooCommerce, so you can make sure all your products have the settings you need:
