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PublishPress Checklists: Pre-Publishing Approval Checklist – Validate Post Requirements

Define checklist tasks to complete before publishing posts. Make sure your content meets your requirements.

approval checklist maximum minimum requirement
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85.3% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.

17 rows with no attached evidence

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Download Momentum

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1.5K 1.9K -19.9% 17.5K

Source Evidence

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mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
Lag in editor with checklist plugin

Lag in editor with checklist plugin: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
Lag in editor with checklist plugin Similarly to this post: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lag-in-editor-when-checklist-plugin-enabled/ , I’ve experienced a severe lag in the editor of my blog.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
bootstrap custom checklist plugin causes error

bootstrap custom checklist plugin causes error: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
bootstrap custom checklist plugin causes error I am trying to build my own custom checklist from the following repository: https://github.com/publishpress/PublishPress-Checklist-Plugin-Bootstrap referenced on this page: https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/custom-requirements-plugin/ However when I try to install and activate this bootstrap plugin, I get
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.88
Publish Button is not disabled

Publish Button is not disabled: users show security, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
Publish Button is not disabled In Settings Disable “Publish” button: This will disable the “Publish” button when checklist requirements are not met.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
Can’t save checklists for more than one custom post type

Can’t save checklists for more than one custom post type: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
I’ll create rules for the second or third post type under its tab, but when I save, the rules aren’t saved.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
Yoast SEO Compatibility issue

Yoast SEO Compatibility issue: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
Yoast SEO Compatibility issue The Publishpress Checklist plugin seems to be incompatible with Yoast SEO.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
Invalid Link Check

Invalid Link Check: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
Not a great solution Hi @sagesteppewild Yes, we have exactly that feature.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
Lag in editor when checklist plugin enabled

Lag in editor when checklist plugin enabled: users show bugs, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
I troubleshot different configurations, and It seems this plugin is the cause.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
Plugin version 2.11.0 prevents saving drafts or publishing

Plugin version 2.11.0 prevents saving drafts or publishing: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
Plugin version 2.11.0 prevents saving drafts or publishing Hi, it looks like the latest version of the PublishPress Checklists plugin ( 2.11.0 ) is currently preventing any saving of drafts, adding of featured images and publishing of pages and posts.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Compatibility with marketplace plugins like Dokan

Compatibility with marketplace plugins like Dokan: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
Compatibility with marketplace plugins like Dokan Hello This is an awesome and powerful plugin but unfortunately for marketplace plugins like Dokan, It’s not compatible with them.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
suddenly the plugin doesn’t work

suddenly the plugin doesn’t work: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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Thank You https://prnt.sc/uAX441GU-7bM https://prnt.sc/I6lZKaK-mb0K https://prnt.sc/1ET8PDRi43Ol Hi @dtyohermawan Can you check your console log for any error?

Competitor Context

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bbPress Moderation praise owner · intel 72.7 · weakness 63.5
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stale update history 22 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: support-heavy site owners, agencies, and community operators · Wedge: triage repeated bbpress threads, failed replies, knowledge gaps, and escalation workload
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Comment Approved praise owner · intel 72.6 · weakness 63.4
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stale update history 9 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: support-heavy site owners, agencies, and community operators · Wedge: triage repeated comment threads, failed replies, knowledge gaps, and escalation workload
source 1 source 2
GT Post Approval praise owner · intel 50.2 · weakness 41.0
praise owner
stale update history 2 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
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Collected Signals

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mixed Can’t save checklists for more than one custom post type support · 2026-06-24T15:09:42+00:00 · medium severity · approval

Can’t save checklists for more than one custom post type: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I’ll create rules for the second or third post type under its tab, but when I save, the rules aren’t saved.
bugs compatibility missing feature pricing Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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complaint Conflict with Rank Math support · 2026-05-15T22:44:16+00:00 · medium severity · approval

PublishPress Checklists stops Rank Math from loading in the editor until the tab is refreshed, and support opened a GitHub issue.

Evidence: this plugin stops Rank Math from loading in the editor.
bugs compatibility Rank Math editor panel Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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mixed Invalid Link Check support · 2026-01-31T17:25:17+00:00 · medium severity · approval

Invalid Link Check: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Not a great solution Hi @sagesteppewild Yes, we have exactly that feature.
bugs compatibility missing feature support Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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question check for forbidden words? support · 2026-01-28T00:47:01+00:00 · low severity · approval

check for forbidden words?: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Something like “Post does not contain the following words:” The use case for me is that the mentioning of a specific name on our site is causing SEO problems (trust me) and I want to make sure that editors don’t slip it in by mistake.
seo Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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complaint External links are not detected support · 2025-08-12T12:11:31+00:00 · medium severity · approval

The user reports that the pre-publishing checklist fails to detect external links and still shows a red cross.

Evidence: Recently the detection of external links is not working. I still get this red cross
bugs external link checklist Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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praise A super useful plugin for bloggers (5 stars) review · 2025-08-05T08:03:19+00:00 · low severity · approval

The reviewer found PublishPress Checklists useful for requiring users to add featured images to blog posts.

Evidence: I was looking for a way to require users on my website to add featured image on each blog post and found this plugin.
quality featured image requirement Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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mixed What happend to my checkboxes?? support · 2025-07-30T17:50:13+00:00 · low severity · approval

After an update, manual checklist boxes appeared as X marks because a new role column needed to be selected.

Evidence: Since the last update my manual checkboxes have dissapeared and show now as an X.
setup manual checklist roles Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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question Custom post type not being targeted support · 2025-07-28T06:04:11+00:00 · low severity · approval

A user could not see checklists on a custom post type until support pointed them to the separate custom post type tab.

Evidence: when I create a new post of that custom type, the checklist interface is missing.
setup checklist post types Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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mixed Can’t publish even after all checklists fulfilled support · 2025-06-11T18:31:20+00:00 · low severity · approval

Can’t publish even after all checklists fulfilled: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I was unable to replicate this so I told them to clear their cache, but it didn’t work.
support value cache Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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mixed Lag in editor with checklist plugin support · 2025-05-21T09:30:51+00:00 · high severity · approval

Lag in editor with checklist plugin: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Lag in editor with checklist plugin Similarly to this post: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lag-in-editor-when-checklist-plugin-enabled/ , I’ve experienced a severe lag in the editor of my blog.
security bugs compatibility performance Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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mixed bootstrap custom checklist plugin causes error support · 2025-05-03T22:06:58+00:00 · high severity · approval

bootstrap custom checklist plugin causes error: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: bootstrap custom checklist plugin causes error I am trying to build my own custom checklist from the following repository: https://github.com/publishpress/PublishPress-Checklist-Plugin-Bootstrap referenced on this page: https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/custom-requirements-plugin/ However when I try to install and activate this bootstrap plugin, I get
bugs compatibility missing feature support Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
mixed Composer download no longer works support · 2025-04-05T07:45:30+00:00 · medium severity · approval

Composer download no longer works: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Composer download no longer works I include this plugin with the composer statement: “wpackagist-plugin/leadin”: “^11.1” It has worked for many years, however, I’m now getting this error: Failed to download wpackagist-plugin/publishpress-checklists from dist: The “ https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/publishpress-checklists.2.18.zip” ; file could not be d
bugs missing feature easy reliable Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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mixed Compatibility with marketplace plugins like Dokan support · 2025-03-28T12:13:53+00:00 · medium severity · approval

Compatibility with marketplace plugins like Dokan: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Compatibility with marketplace plugins like Dokan Hello This is an awesome and powerful plugin but unfortunately for marketplace plugins like Dokan, It’s not compatible with them.
compatibility missing feature support reliable Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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mixed Publish Button is not disabled support · 2025-02-04T23:57:37+00:00 · high severity · approval

Publish Button is not disabled: users show security, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Publish Button is not disabled In Settings Disable “Publish” button: This will disable the “Publish” button when checklist requirements are not met.
security missing feature support reliable Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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praise Very Helpful Plugins and Support (5 stars) review · 2025-01-23T13:26:43+00:00 · medium severity · approval

Very Helpful Plugins and Support: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Very Helpful Plugins and Support The full PublishPress suite is turning out to be very helpful with our full site redesign.
bugs support easy Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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neutral Issue with SEO and Readability Indicators in Post Editing support · 2024-12-04T22:38:19+00:00 · medium severity · approval

Issue with SEO and Readability Indicators in Post Editing: users show bugs, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Issue with SEO and Readability Indicators in Post Editing We recently identified an issue, although we are unsure when it first started.
bugs missing feature setup seo Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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mixed Conflict with Min/Max Categories and RankMath’s Primary Catgeory feature support · 2024-10-07T17:24:57+00:00 · medium severity · approval

Conflict with Min/Max Categories and RankMath’s Primary Catgeory feature: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Conflict with Min/Max Categories and RankMath’s Primary Catgeory feature Hi.
bugs compatibility missing feature value Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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mixed Can’t create custom check with multiple Post Types support · 2024-09-28T17:47:06+00:00 · medium severity · approval

Can’t create custom check with multiple Post Types: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This works flawlesly on the first custom post; seems like an issue with the tabs switcher… Regards!
bugs reliable Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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neutral Deprecated errors since update support · 2024-09-04T12:11:05+00:00 · medium severity · approval

Deprecated errors since update: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Deprecated errors since update Hello, We have update the plugin and got now ton of deprecated warning from php.
bugs compatibility reporting Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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mixed Yoast SEO Compatibility issue support · 2024-09-02T13:34:43+00:00 · medium severity · approval

Yoast SEO Compatibility issue: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Yoast SEO Compatibility issue The Publishpress Checklist plugin seems to be incompatible with Yoast SEO.
bugs compatibility missing feature support Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around maximum before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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