What’s On Your WordPress Pre-Publish Checklist?

Update: Our new and improved plugin is now live! The new plugin is PublishPress Checklists!

These tutorials will give more details on what PublishPress Checklists can do:

• Set a maximum or minimum number of words.
• Choose a minimum and maximum number of tags and categories.

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Before you publish WordPress posts, do you have things you always check for?

• A minimum number of words?
• Yoast SEO green check marks for SEO and readability?
• A certain number of categories and tags?
• A featured image?
• Scan for broken links?

PublishPress is possibly the best editorial calendar in WordPress. To keep making it better, one of the things we're adding to PublishPress is a pre-publish checklist.

There is an older plugin that does this called “Publishing Checklist” but it's not been updated in a couple of years. It's a useful plugin, but the options are just text boxes. Plus, the plugin doesn't actually analyze your posts, instead relying on the author to look for mistakes themselves.

If you haven't used Publishing Checklist before, this image shows what happens when you try to publish content without completing all the recommendations:

We aim to make a more powerful version of the plugin. One of the key improvements will be the ability to require some items and make others simply recommendations. At the moment, the Publishing Checklist plugin has one setting for all the items:

Over to you … do you have any items you'd like to see included in this WordPress pre-publish checklist?

If you're still not sure if PublishPress is worth trying, check out reviews of the PublishPress plugin.