Prevent yourself from publishing unfinished posts.
As of April 2026, Publishing Conditions is a WordPress writing plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP 5.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: TinyMCE Spellcheck.
This plugin helps enforcing a set of conditions before posts can be published. You can basically integrate your pre-publish checklist into WordPress itself! The following conditions are currently supported:
If you need more conditions or have other suggestions for improvement, let me know! The best place to do so is via an issue on GitHub.
If a post does not meet your publishing conditions and you try to publish anyway, it will be set to draft instead. You can customize your publishing conditions under Settings->Writing. That is all there is to it!
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.8.28 |
| PHP | 5.3+ required |
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