Here at PublishPress, our focus is on creating publishing workflows in WordPress. This includes allowing you to create custom statuses in WordPress. However, before moving on to more advanced workflows, people often need some clarity on the basic workflow features in WordPress. For example, what exactly is the difference between “Pending Review” and “Draft”?
The goal of PublishPress is to provide professional publishing tools for WordPress. When larger, professional organizations start to use PublishPress, a lot of their questions revolve around permissions. Permissions questions do not have easy answers in WordPress. The permissions system in WordPress can be confusing. One example of this confusion is the “Edit Posts” permission….
This week we talked with a PublishPress customer who wanted to build an approval process for his website. His goal is to allow administrators to assign empty posts to authors, who can then add the content and pass them back to the administrator for approval. Here are the four steps in that workflow: In this…