As of April 2026, Extended Post Status is a WordPress post plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 26K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Downloads are down 6% this week. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
This plugin provides the option to add new statuses to the backend and define the system relevant status settings. You can add/edit statuses just as categories or tags. All statuses are available for all your post types.
You will find a new menu item located in the settings admin menu.
For the sake of understanding, this plugin minimally changes messages, translations and workflow in Gutenberg Editor!
Very straightforward plugin to set up, and probably worked great in the older days. But unfortunately it’s too glitchy to use with the latest Gutenberg editor. Custom statuses won’t show up the newly reworked post status pane (WP 6.6+), but do show up lower down in a separate pane. It also messes up the behavior of the Save/Update/Publish button in the editor to the point where I’m totally baffled about what it does anymore. For example, if you make a change to a DRAFT or PENDING post, there’s no longer an UPDATE button. There’s a SAVE button, but it behaves erratically—like automatically publishes things without warning. So I find it unfit for public use at this point.
It looks Taxonomy/Filter and Post Deactivation has some bug.
Edit: It looks need to speak with Developer
I wasn’t able to achieve this functionality with my own coding, but this plugin does the job! It really helps smooth out a complicated workflow.
I use it for woocommerce products and works great for now.
“just” a perfect plugin.
I tried to put together the code for this feature myself, but some parts didn’t want to come together.
I should have found this plugin first.
thanks to the developer!
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
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