Easiest way to make sure your page or post is ready to go live
As of April 2026, Pre-Publish Checklist is a WordPress Editorial checklist plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 30K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are up 24% this week.
Is the fear of publishing an incomplete post haunting you already? Do you get worried about tasks like adding a featured image, updating the permalink, etc. just when you are about to click the publish button?
All of this is handled with an easy to use Pre-Publish Checklist plugin that lets you create a checklist you wish to maintain for every post type on your website. You can build a checklist with necessary tasks and prioritize them by placing them in the required order.
This will make sure that you are reminded of the remaining tasks before the post goes live.
Why worry about the things to do when the plugin will do that for you!
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This plugin has helped me ensure I don’t miss any steps I need to complete before publishing. Without it I am certain that I would forget some basic steps before hitting publish.
Also, when I had an issue with the plugin, support quickly implemented and released a fix.
This plugin is excellent and is exactly what I was looking for when I needed something to keep track of what jobs had been done for each article.
However, there is a feature that I think could improve the plugin’s functionality without being too difficult to implement.
There is the “Filter Unchecked” dropdown box that allows you to see which posts need a particular action doing to them, but it has no idea if there is a dependency that needs doing first. So I can get a list of all articles that need editor approval, but it includes articles that have been written and those which haven’t.
Adding another filter alongside the “Filter Unchecked” called “Filter Checked” should be relatively easy. That way you could see all the articles that have been written AND need editor approval.
This plugin very useful. simple and powerful for workflow
Thought about developing this myself and found this one. Does what it’s built for, awesome! One thing that would make it top notch: A description to each Checklist-Item that appears by hovering or clicking a little questionmark next to each item! That would be dope!
Exactly what I was looking for and it’s not over-engineered or bloated – it’s just easy to use and functional. The one thing I hope you could add is the ability to show the checklist completion percentage (maybe as a progress bar?) as a column on the post list (/wp-admin/edit.php). It would be really useful for seeing at-a-glance how close each post is to being complete and ready to publish without having to go into each post.
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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