Edit Flow

Redefining your WordPress editorial workflow

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Edit Flow v0.7: Modular architecture, monthly calendar, and sortable statuses

January 9, 2012 by Daniel Bachhuber 9 Comments

Months in the making, Edit Flow v0.7 is now out the door and available for download. We’d love to give you a quick introduction to what’s new.

Modular architecture

The biggest change in Edit Flow v0.7 is that the entire plugin has been rewritten into a modular architecture. Each feature is a module you can enable or disable. Most modules have a configuration view where, among other things, you can change which post types you want to apply the feature to. No more dealing with code snippets for adding custom statuses to your custom post type. There are also standard UIs for customizing each feature.

One purpose of the modular architecture is to make it much easier for others to contribute new features. It’s super easy to plug a new module into our framework and have it work with existing features. Learn more about contributing code.

Month-by-month calendar with AJAX drag and drop

The calendar now defaults to showing the upcoming six weeks, and you can change this range to a week or up to twelve weeks. Unpublished posts can be dragged from date to date so you can keep track of what’s going to be published when. Click on a post title to see all of the details about the post (including your viewable editorial metadata).

Other improvements

Along with the big changes, we added a lot of polish to each feature, including:

  • Editorial metadata can appear in the calendar, story budget, or manage posts screen by marking a term as “viewable”.
  • Editorial metadata display in nicely formatted columns if you move its post meta box under the editor.
  • Prioritize your custom statuses and editorial metadata with drag-and-drop. You now have full control over what appears in what order. This also affects presentation of this data in the calendar and elsewhere.
  • “Draft” and “Pending Review” post statuses can be deleted.
  • Notifications have a filter so you can disable auto-subscribing the post author or users who edit the post.
  • Fixed the order of execution for saving notifications, so you can auto-subscribe user groups based on post status using a code snippet.
  • Improved how the story budget date range works — now you’ll pick a start date and number of days to show.
  • Switched to jQuery Datepicker, which has a much friendlier UI, for all date selection.

Credits for this release

Edit Flow is an open source project, and we’re indebted to many people for helping us improve the code and experience. In particular, we’d like to mention:

  • Ben Balter, Nick Hamze, and Rinat Khaziev for their code contributions and testing.
  • Andrew Witherspoon, Andrew Spittle, Lauren Rabaino, and Chelsea Otakan for their design expertise.
  • Steve McConnell for extensive testing and usability feedback.
  • The Noun Project for an awesome set of free to use icons.
  • Automattic for allowing me (Daniel) to work on Edit Flow as a 20%, sometimes 50-80%, project.

Try out Edit Flow v0.7 and let us know what you think. Want to help make the next version even better? Check out our introduction to contributing, and get involved!

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: custom statuses, editorial calendar, editorial metadata, releases, v0.7

Edit Flow v0.6.2: Bug fixes

January 28, 2011 by Daniel Bachhuber 6 Comments

We released Edit Flow v0.6.2 on Wednesday to fix two bugs. First, post titles now appear in all email notifications (thanks kfawcett and madguy000 for pointing this out). Second, bulking editing any post type should no longer inadvertently delete editorial metadata (thanks meganknight for pointing this out).

As always, please hit us with feedback, ideas, and questions in the WordPress.org forum.

Filed Under: Blog, Maintenance, Release Tagged With: bug fixes, bulk editing, editorial metadata, v0.6.2

Edit Flow v0.6: Custom editorial metadata and the story budget

November 10, 2010 by Scott Bressler 13 Comments

Following a few months of development and countless hours of bug squashing, we are pleased to introduce Edit Flow v0.6. This release includes two brand new workflow features which continue to adapt WordPress for the publishing environment: editorial metadata and the story budget. In addition, our calendar has been rewritten from the ground up, and many bugs have been fixed.

We have a special treat for you with this release: a screencast video walking you through all the new stuff we’re so excited about. Take a look!

For those who prefer reading, here’s a breakdown of the new features:

Editorial Metadata

Our goal for editorial metadata is to make it easy to keep track of important information associated with every post, within every post. Contact information for the story’s sources? Saved in the sidebar. Required story length? Saved in the sidebar.

  • Build your own terms with loads of different types: checkbox, date, location, paragraph, text, user
  • Many built-in terms to get your started, but fully-customizable
  • Expands on our previous, uncustomizable metadata: description, due date, and location
Editorial Metadata terms

Editorial metadata comes with a bunch of built-in terms, but these can be changed to your heart's content.

Editorial Metadata in each post

Within each post you can modify the metadata recorded for the post

Story Budget

Our goal with the story budget view is to make it simple to visualize all of your upcoming content in a presentation familiar to more traditional news organizations.

  • View all of your upcoming posts
  • Posts are grouped by category, and view can be filtered by post status, category, user, or limited to a date range
  • Filters are saved on a user by user basis and can easily be reset
  • Hit the print button to take it to the budget meeting
Story Budget

Get a sense of your upcoming content on the Story Budget

This release also fixes many bugs around custom statuses, user groups, and notifications! A full list of changes can be found on the version changelog.

If you haven’t upgraded yet, download it from the Plugin Directory or directly from within WordPress. Please use the WordPress.org forums for support, bugs, and ideas. Track our progress and get involved with development on GitHub!

Filed Under: Blog, Release Tagged With: bug fixes, editorial calendar, editorial metadata, story budget, v0.6

Features

Calendar – A convenient month-by-month look at your content.

Custom Statuses – Define the key stages to your workflow.

Editorial Comments – Threaded commenting in the admin for private discussion between writers and editors.

Editorial Metadata – Keep track of the important details.

Notifications – Receive timely updates on the content you’re following.

Story Budget – View your upcoming content budget.

User Groups – Keep your users organized by department or function.

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Edit Flow is an open source project led by Daniel Bachhuber, Mo Jangda, and Scott Bressler.

Updates

  • Rethinking the Calendar, May 2020
  • v0.9.6: Wayside/Back in Time
  • v0.9.5: All the Best

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