Pre-Publish Post Checklist

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1. ★★★★★ CroMisho

   10.8y ago

   I will leave the five stars because this is truly a useful plugin. However, it made me rewrite the whole post because it warned me that I haven’t finished the check-list, and I have clicked “don’t publish.” The warning window disappeared, but the black background stayed, blocking any click in the window (Latest Firefox). I had to refresh it and lose my whole post. Later it warned me again, although I did finish the checklist. I have turned-off the warnings and only use the checklist. Could be some plugin conflict, caching, who knows…

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2. ★★★★★ beornot.tobie

   10.9y ago

   hi there, I would like to set (as administrator of a multi-blogeur blog) rules who would block automatically the submition of drafts if all the required fields are not properly complete by the authors. Your plugin would therefore be very helpfull to solve my issue. Unfortunately, your plugin does not seem to be compatible with my WP version (4.2.2). Is that correct? If so, are you going to update this plugin? If no, do you know further plugins that are compatible to my WP version? I also would like to know if “Pre-Publish Post Checklist” is able to block the update of all type of posts (whatever its status) or if it block just the published one. Best regards, Tobie

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3. ★★★★★ Daniel

   11.5y ago

   Before I used “Genkys Pre Publish Reminder” and “Good Writer Checkify” which are both no longer updated, but this was the solution I was looking for in our multi-author environment! Thanks a lot! It would be great, if you could integrate a possibility to change the order of the checklist items.

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4. ★★★★★ projectmunton

   11.8y ago

   Excellent plugin for making sure you have hit all those important updates before you publish !! Highly recommend this one 🙂

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5. ★★★★★ Ben Sibley

   11.8y ago

   If you’ve ever prematurely published a post, you know how much that sucks. You can update your post, but your readers have already been notified and it’s in your RSS feed for good. This is a handy plugin that keeps that from happening, and also makes it easier to remember each step in your editorial process. Nice work!

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

1. Medium · 4.3 Pre-Publish Post Checklist <= 3.1 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2025-06-27 CVE-2025-53323 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.1 No patch available

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2024-12-07 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in tier
2. 2024-12-05 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2024-12-03 200+ → 100+ down after 39 days in tier
4. 2024-10-25 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in tier
5. 2024-10-22 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2024-10-21 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2024-10-20 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2024-10-19 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• PublishPress Checklists: Pre-Publishing Approval Checklist – Validate Post Requirements 3K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
• Pre-Publish Checklist 1K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag B
• Checklist in Post 400+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag D
• Checklist 400+ installs · 3.9★ · 1 shared tag D
• Todo Block 300+ installs · 3.8★ · 1 shared tag B
• P Publishing Checklist 200+ installs · 3.8★ · 1 shared tag D

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Pre-Publish Post Checklist: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/pre-publish-post-checklist