PublishPress Statuses 1.3.4: Disabled Statuses Get an Enable Link
This post is about a release of the PublishPress Statuses plugin. WordPress provides only “Draft” and “Pending Review”. With this plugin, you can add new statuses and build real publishing workflows.
PublishPress Statuses v1.3.4 makes it easier to manage custom editorial workflows, especially when working with disabled statuses. The headline improvement is a new Enable link directly in the Disabled Statuses table, so site managers can restore a status more quickly.
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Feature highlights
- Faster status reenabling: Disabled status rows now include an Enable link, making it easier to bring a status back into your workflow.

- Cleaner status editing: The save button on the Edit Status screen has been relocated to make updates easier to find and apply.
- More reliable Alternate status control: Alternate statuses supplied by the plugin can now be disabled as expected.
Other changes
- Post Access tab wording: The tab now uses capital case for a more consistent admin interface.
- Status assignment wording: The status assignment caption now appears as “Set” for clearer action wording.
- Checkbox behavior: Clicking a capability label now toggles its checkbox correctly in browsers where this was not working.
- Translation fix: One line of text now uses the correct translation domain.
- Activation redirect: The plugin now redirects to the Statuses screen only on first activation.
- Interface cleanup: The Pro promotional sidebar has been removed.
Overall, this is a focused maintenance release that improves the day to day admin experience for teams managing custom publishing statuses.
This post provides an overview of the new features in this release of the PublishPress Statuses plugin. The complete changelogs for both Free and Pro versions are available in our Docs area.

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.
