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

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

<a href="https://publishpress.com/checklists/" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Checklists</a> 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&#8217;s show you a few possible options for your posts:
<ul>
<li>Ensure your posts have a minimum or maximum number of words.</li>
<li>Require your posts have a featured image.</li>
<li>Check for any broken links.</li>
<li>Force authors to use a specific number of Tags or Categories.</li>
<li>Require posts to be approved by a user in a specific role.</li>
<li>Use OpenAI to scan your content and make sure it uses good grammar or the correct tone.</li>
</ul>
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.
<h3>PublishPress Checklists Pro</h3>
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 This plugin is the free version of the Checklists Pro plugin that comes with all the features you need to set standards for your WordPress content. <a href="https://publishpress.com/checklists" title="Checklists Pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to purchase the best premium WordPress checklists plugin now!</a>
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<h3>You Can Set These Checklist Requirements</h3>
Each task on your pre-publish checklist can be configured to meet your site’s needs. You can also set maximum and minimum values.
<a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/checklists-started/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read the Getting Started guide for PublishPress Checklists</a>.
Here are the default tasks you can use on your checklists:
<ul>
<li>Title: Maximum or minimum number of characters</li>
<li>Body text: Maximum or minimum number of words</li>
<li>Categories: Maximum or minimum number of categories</li>
<li>Tags: Maximum or minimum number of tags</li>
<li>Taxonomy terms: Maximum or minimum number of terms</li>
<li>Excerpt: Maximum or minimum number of characters</li>
<li>Internal links: Maximum or minimum number of internal links</li>
<li>External links: Maximum or minimum number of external links</li>
<li>Featured image: Require a featured image</li>
<li>Featured image size (Pro version): Require a maximum and minimum height and width for featured images</li>
<li>ALT text: Require ALT text for all images</li>
<li>Broken links: Check that all links use a valid format</li>
<li>Permalink: Control the characters in the URL</li>
<li>User approval: Require that posts are approved by users in a specific role</li>
<li>Yoast SEO: Require that posts get Yoast SEO approval</li>
</ul>
You can configure each requirement, depending on whether you want to require writers to complete the tasks. Here are the three options:
<ul>
<li>Disabled</li>
<li>Recommended</li>
<li>Required</li>
</ul>
If you choose the “Required” option, it will be impossible to publish without completing the task.
<h3>OpenAI Checklist Requirements</h3>
PublishPress Checklists integrates with OpenAI. You can use prompts to analyze your content. If OpenAI decides that your content doesn&#8217;t meet the requirements, it will show the task as incomplete.
You can create checklist requirements like these:
<ul>
<li>&#8220;Is the content clear and easy to read?&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Is this content tone professional?&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Does this article use correct grammar?&#8221;</li>
</ul>
OpenAI will scan your content and given a detailed verdict. This is an excellent way to catch errors and improve your content before publishing.
<a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/custom-requirements-checklist/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see how to create OpenAI requirements</a>.
<h3>You Can Create New Checklist Requirements</h3>
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.
<a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/custom-requirements-checklist/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see how to create custom requirements</a>.
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.
<h3>Pro Version: Checklists for WooCommerce Products</h3>
The Pro version of PublishPress Checklists has support for WooCommerce. There are all the requirements you can choose:
<ul>
<li>Number of characters in Excerpt</li>
<li>Number of Product tags</li>
<li>Number of Product categories</li>
<li>Number of words</li>
<li>Featured image</li>
<li>Check the “Virtual” box</li>
<li>Check the “Downloadable” box</li>
<li>Enter a “Regular price”</li>
<li>Enter a “Sale price”</li>
<li>Schedule the “Sale price”</li>
<li>Discount for the “Sale price”</li>
<li>Enter a “SKU”</li>
<li>Check the “Manage stock?” box</li>
<li>Check the “Sold individually” box</li>
<li>Check the “Allow backorders?” box</li>
<li>Select some products for “Upsells”</li>
<li>Select some products for “Cross-sells”</li>
<li>Product image</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/use-woocommerce-checklist-add-publishpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to read more about WooCommerce checklists</a>.
<h3>Join PublishPress and get the Pro plugins</h3>
The Pro versions of the PublishPress plugins are well worth your investment. The Pro versions have extra features and faster support. <a href="https://publishpress.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to join PublishPress</a>.
Join PublishPress and you&#8217;ll get access to these nince Pro plugins:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/authors" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Authors Pro</a> allows you to add multiple authors and guest authors to WordPress posts.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/blocks" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Blocks Pro</a> has everything you need to build professional websites with the WordPress block editor.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/capabilities" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Capabilities Pro</a> is the plugin to manage your WordPress user roles, permissions, and capabilities.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/checklists" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Checklists Pro</a> enables you to define tasks that must be completed before content is published.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/future" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Future Pro</a> is the plugin for scheduling changes to your posts.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/permissions" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Permissions Pro</a> is the plugin for advanced WordPress permissions.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/publishpress" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Planner Pro</a> is the plugin for managing and scheduling WordPress content.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/revisions" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Revisions Pro</a> allows you to update your published pages with teamwork and precision.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/series" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Series Pro</a> enables you to group content together into a series</li>
</ul>
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&#8230; then you should try PublishPress.
<h3>Bug Reports</h3>
Bug reports for PublishPress Checklists are welcomed in our <a href="https://github.com/publishpress/publishpress-checklists" rel="nofollow ugc">repository on GitHub</a>. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, and that issues that aren’t properly qualified as bugs will be closed.
<h3>Follow the PublishPress team</h3>
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