Redefining your WordPress workflow
Edit Flow v0.5: Introducing the editorial calendar
After a bit of a hiatus, meet Edit Flow v0.5. The editorial calendar has been on the feature request from the beginning. With this release Edit Flow takes another step toward full news-cycle management. I’m personally quite enthusiastic about this release, as it play a crucial role in my news organizations decision to use WordPress / Edit Flow as the print CMS for the daily newspaper that I manage. This release lays a foundation for several exciting enhancements to come.
Features introduced in this release:
EditFlow Calendar
- Drag & Drop posts
- 7 day calendar view
Filter by Custom Status
- Writers: Show only posts assigned to me
- Editors: Show only Draft status (great for managing deadlines)
If you haven’t upgraded yet, download it from the Plugin Directory or directly from within WordPress.
This is fantastic. Would it would as well for a single blogger as it does for an entire newsroom? If so, I’m in!
Michelle Rafter
WordCount: Freelancing in the digital age
It should… Try it out and let us know what you think!
Hi, I have used this plugin for a long time and I have to say it’s the best plugin to do editorial. However, I recently updated EditFlow and I got this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_post_status() in ...wp-content/plugins/edit-flow/php/custom_status.php on line 59I lost all assigned posts.
Do you have any information about this error?
Thanks!
Do you think it’s caused by WP 3.0? I’m using 2.9…
Got it, upgraded to WP 3.0 will resolve this issue! Great plugin btw!
Is there a way to disable the calendar? I don’t want my guest blog contributors to see the posts I’m working on and this allows them to.
Unfortunately you can’t at this point; that was an oversight on our part. I’ll make sure it gets added to an upcoming release!
Something that wasn’t clear in the description of the Edit Flow plugin is whether it enhances (fixes) the (rather broken) “Preview” function of WordPress. Right now, whenever I want someone to preview a draft without giving them a login for WordPress, I have to send them a screenshot. If I send the preview link, it just gives a “you do not have permission” message when they click on it.
Does Edit Flow make it possible to send around a draft for review to people who have and don’t have a WordPress login, instead of having to do screenshots or resorting to publishing it fully?
It’s not possible currently but that’s a great idea!
I will definitely donate to the cause if you make it have that capability. It’s been the biggest thorn in my side since I started promoting WordPress as our company’s editorial workflow system.
@Rob: It seems someone else already beat us to the punch, and it looks like a pretty solid plugin at that. Definitely check it out and report back:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/public-post-preview/
Also looks like another developer simplified that plugin and released as a new plugin with public previews off by default:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-preview/faq/
@Kendall: What exactly is it that contributors can see that you don’t want them to? The titles of your draft posts or the posts themselves? The titles can already be seen at edit.php, and contributors can’t view or edit posts admins are writing from the calendar.
That said, look forward to an on/off switch with the very-soon upcoming minor release of EF
The contributors can see the titles of my drafts posts and I’d like to prevent this. (I’d prefer to not let them see what I have coming up!)
I use the Role Scoper plug-in to prevent them from seeing the titles in edit.php and would like to be able to prevent them from seeing the titles in Edit Flow as well! I hope that makes sense…
Thanks for taking this into consideration into your new release!!
Ah, understood. I added a new capability, ef_view_calendar, to the plugin over the weekend, as well as the ability to turn off the calendar completely. While I defaulted to give contributors that capability, you can easily remove it with Role Scoper. Hope that helps! We should have these changes released in v0.5.1 in a few days.
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. The Mountain Democrat is switching to WordPress? I grew up near Placerville and almost got a job there when I was like 18. That is unreal.
Hey guys,
I tried submitting feedback by email but they got bounced. Might want to check on that.
The bug I noticed was that author (reporter) could change deadlines in the calendar by dragging posts from one date to another… especially already published posts. That’s something major.
Great plugin though!
Sorry for the late reply. User permissions with the calendar is a known issue that we fixed in 0.5.1, the version we tagged on Wednesday night. Furthermore, it gives you the ability to disable the calendar if you so desire. Try it out and let us know what you think!
Great plugin.
How about adding the ability to show more than one week at a time with the calendar. similiar to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/editorial-calendar/screenshots/