You can define tasks that must be complete before content is published. Do you get a red X or a green checkmark?
PublishPress Checklists is the best plugin to make sure your content is ready to go live. With PublishPress Checklists, you can choose pre-publishing requirements for your content. Using PublishPress Checklists, you define tasks that must be completed before content is published.
Let’s show you a few possible options for your posts:
Next to every post and page, writers see a checklist box, showing the tasks they need to complete. Tasks can either be recommended or required. As authors complete each task, the red X automatically turns to a green checkmark.
PublishPress Checklists integrates with OpenAI. You can use OpenAI technology to scan your posts and check for the right tone, good spelling, or correct grammar.
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Each task on your pre-publish checklist can be configured to meet your site’s needs. You can also set maximum and minimum values.
Read the Getting Started guide for PublishPress Checklists.
Here are the default tasks you can use on your checklists:
You can configure each requirement, depending on whether you want to require writers to complete the tasks. Here are the three options:
If you choose the “Required” option, it will be impossible to publish without completing the task.
PublishPress Checklists integrates with OpenAI. You can use prompts to analyze your content. If OpenAI decides that your content doesn’t meet the requirements, it will show the task as incomplete.
You can create checklist requirements like these:
OpenAI will scan your content and given a detailed verdict. This is an excellent way to catch errors and improve your content before publishing.
Click here to see how to create OpenAI requirements.
You can create new requirements for your checklists by clicking the “Add custom task” link. For example, you can require authors to get a green Yoast sign, or force them to run a spell-check before publishing.
Click here to see how to create custom requirements.
It is also possible to create more powerful requirements using a custom plugin. We have created a sample plugin to show how to do this. The sample plugin will automatically check that your site’s authors have included a specific word in their main content. If this new requirement is enabled, it will automatically search the text of your content to make sure it contains the word you choose.
The Pro version of PublishPress Checklists has support for WooCommerce. There are all the requirements you can choose:
Click here to read more about WooCommerce checklists.
The Pro versions of the PublishPress plugins are well worth your investment. The Pro versions have extra features and faster support. Click here to join PublishPress.
Join PublishPress and you’ll get access to these nince Pro plugins:
Together, these plugins are a suite of powerful publishing tools for WordPress. If you need to create a professional workflow in WordPress, with moderation, revisions, permissions and more… then you should try PublishPress.
Bug reports for PublishPress Checklists are welcomed in our repository on GitHub. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, and that issues that aren’t properly qualified as bugs will be closed.
Create your own checklists: Next to every post and page, writers see a checklist box, showing the tasks they need to complete.
Custom checklist rules: In addition to the default rules, PublishPress Checklists allows you to create your own rules.
Configure your requirements: Each item on the checklist can be configured to meet your site’s needs. You can decide whether items are recommended, required or ignored.
Feedback before publishing: If the writers don’t complete all the requirements, PublishPress Checklists will show them a message explaining what they need to do.
WooCommerce products checklist: This feature in Checklists Pro allows you to create requirements for WooCommerce products.1. Create your own checklists. Next to every post and page, writers see a checklist box, showing the tasks they need to complete. As writers complete each item, the red text automatically turns to green when it is complete.
Configure your requirements. Each item on the checklist can be configured to meet your site’s needs. You can decide whether items are recommended, required or ignored. You can also set maximum and minimum values.
With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can require a maximum and minimum number of characters for the Title in your WordPress content. If the Title isn’t the correct length, you can choose to show a warning, or prevent the post from being published. Many sites require the title to be around 55 to 60 characters long. This is often because that is the optimal length to show in Google’s search results.
Read about choosing the number of characters in titles
With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can require a maximum and minimum number of words for the content of your WordPress posts. If the content isn’t the correct length, you can choose to show a warning, or prevent the post from being published. Many WordPress sites want to specify a certain number of words for all their posts. For example, the Yoast SEO plugin recommends that you aim for around 1,000-1,500 words.
Read about choosing the number of words in posts
With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can require a maximum and minimum number of categories for your WordPress posts. If the correct number of categories aren’t added, you can choose to show a warning, or prevent the post from being published. Having the correct number of categories is important for your site’s SEO. By default, Categories are only available on WordPress Posts. However, with the “TaxoPress” plugin you can add Categories to other post types and so you will be able to use the tutorial for those post types too.
Read about choosing the number of categories in posts
With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can require a maximum and minimum number of tags for your WordPress posts. This feature also supports taxonomy terms from other plugins or custom post types. If the correct number of tags aren’t added, you can choose to show a warning, or prevent the post from being published. Having the correct number of tags is important for your site’s SEO.
Read about choosing the number of tags in posts
With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can require a maximum and minimum number of characters for the Excerpts in your WordPress content. If the Excerpt isn’t the correct length, you can choose to show a warning, or prevent the post from being published. The Excerpt field is a very useful feature in WordPress. The Excerpt is an optional summary or description of the main content.
Read about choosing the number of characters in WordPress excerpts
With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can require a maximum and minimum number of internal links in your WordPress content. If the content does not have the correct number of internal links, you can choose to show a warning, or prevent the post from being published. We define “internal links” as any “a href” link to another page on your site. Many sites want a large number of internal links because it can improve their site’s search engine optimization.
Read about choosing the number of internal links in WordPress excerpts
With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can require a maximum and minimum number of external links in your WordPress content. If the content does not have the correct number of external links, you can choose to show a warning, or prevent the post from being published. We define “external links” as any “a href” link to URL on another website. Many sites want to prevent a large number of external links because it can harm their site’s search engine optimization.
Read about choosing the number of external links in WordPress excerpts
With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can ensure that all the links in your content (both external and internal) use a valid link format. This feature won’t check the destination URL, but it will check the link format to make sure you haven’t used URLs such as htpps// or .nt.
The Checklists plugin uses these regular expressions to check for broken links. You will find this code in this file: /core/Utils/HyperlinkValidator.php.
With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can require that all the images have ALT text in your WordPress content. If an image is missing the ALT text, you can choose to show a warning, or prevent the post from being published. ALT text (short for “alternative text”) is useful because it describes images to visitors who are unable to see them. Visually impaired users often use screen readers that can read ALT text to better understand an on-page image.
Read about checking images for ALT text
With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can require that all your posts have a Featured image. If the image is missing, you can choose to show a warning, or prevent the post from being published. Many sites require a featured image for blog posts because an image is important for sharing on social media.
Read about requiring a featured image
With this requirement, you can stop content from being published unless it has been approved by a user in a particular role. This is an excellent way to allow some users to “sign off” on content before it is published.
Read about requiring approval by an admin
With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can require that site’s content meets minimum standards with the Yoast SEO plugin. If the content doesn’t meet those standards, you can choose to show a warning, or prevent the post from being published. Many sites require that their content meets Yoast SEO standards. This helps ensure that their content is optimized for search engines. The Checklists plugin integrates with the SEO and Readability features in Yoast SEO.
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