PublishPress Checklists: Pre-Publishing Approval Checklist – Validate Post Requirements
Define checklist tasks to complete before publishing posts. Make sure your content meets your requirements.
5(24 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 week agoAs of April 2026, PublishPress Checklists: Pre-Publishing Approval Checklist is a WordPress maximum plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 24 reviews. It has been downloaded 168K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 7.2.5+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 62% this week. Top alternative: WP Maximum Execution Time Exceeded.
5/524 reviews
3.0K+active installs
168K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
PublishPress Checklists is the best plugin to make sure your content is ready to go live. Using PublishPress Checklists, you define tasks that must be completed before content is published.
Let’s show you a few possible options for your posts:
- Ensure your posts have a minimum or maximum number of words.
- Require your posts have a featured image.
- Check for any broken links.
- Force authors to use a specific number of Tags or Categories.
- Require posts to be approved by a user in a specific role.
- Use OpenAI to scan your content and make sure it uses good grammar or the correct tone.
Next to every post and page, writers see a checklist box, showing the tasks they need to complete. Tasks can either be recommended or required. As authors complete each task, the red X automatically turns to…
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Recent Reviews
A super useful plugin for bloggers
by Aliko Sunawang·8 months ago·1 reply
I was looking for a way to require users on my website to add featured image on each blog post and found this plugin.
Very Helpful Plugins and Support
by avsualr·1 year ago·1 reply
The full PublishPress suite is turning out to be very helpful with our full site redesign. It fills a lot of holes that other plugins weren’t able to do. I’ve also been very pleased with the support of their team. They’ve been quick to reply with solutions to my issues and receptive to suggestions that I have to make things better. Multisite development can be tricky and frustrating at best so I appreciate good support with that when available. Cheers.
Easy to use and useful plugin
by wocmultimedia·2 years ago·1 reply
I first installed the plugin to check translation then I kept it in my website because I found out it was useful to carry on my work. Thanks, I wish you carry on developing this and other useful plugin like this one.
Very Practical and Useful for Posting
by comreJH·2 years ago·1 reply
This is a very handy and useful plugin for serious bloggers and online publishers. The premium upgrade is great value and a wise addition.
Helps me with every posting
by Huckleberry·3 years ago·1 reply
I set it up to prevent me from posting until I have added at least a tag. Very helpful!
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2.5+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.27
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v2.26
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Other
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v2.17
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v2.23
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