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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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