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PublishPress Statuses – Custom Post Status and Workflow

The PublishPress Statuses plugin allows you to create additional statuses for your posts. You can use each status to create publishing workflows.

By PublishPress·Workflow·Free
5(4 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 month ago
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As of April 2026, PublishPress Statuses is a WordPress workflow plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 38K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 7.2.5+. Available on WordPress.org since 2024. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are up 19% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Zapier for WordPress.

5/54 reviews
1.0K+active installs
100%resolved
2 yearssince 2024

Overview

Have you ever wanted to label a WordPress post something other than “Draft” or “Pending Review”? The PublishPress Statuses plugin can help.

PublishPress Statuses allows you to create additional statuses for your posts. For example, you can add statuses such as “In Progress”, “Needs Work”, or “Rejected”. You can also control which users can move posts to each status.

Why Use PublishPress Statuses?

WordPress provides you with only two statuses for your post: “Draft” or “Pending Review”. This means that before your content is published it can only be labeled as “Draft” or “Pending Review”.

Those statuses are too limiting for many publishers. For example, what label should you use for c…

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Ratings & Reviews

54 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Essential
by skylabb·1 year ago·1 reply

Workflow? This is an essential feature for sites having multiple editors. The flow steps can be customized. Perfect.

Works!
by evanltd·1 year ago·1 reply

Has more features and complexity than I needed, but it works great for adding some custom post statuses.

Great plugin
by sami770·2 years ago·1 reply

Great, good that it is now a plugin of its own and not part of the planner plugin

Fast support.
by gokcer·2 years ago·3 replies

Fast support.

  • This topic was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by gokcer. Reason: Subjective data deleted
  • This topic was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by gokcer.

Download Trends

Today: 24Yesterday: 24This week: 201Period total: 22K

Compatibility

WordPress5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP7.2.5+ required

Version Adoption

v1.2
55.2%
v1.1
35.0%
v1.0
9.8%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

The full changelog can be found on GitHub.

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Kevin BehrensKevin BehrensSteve BurgeSteve BurgePublishPressPublishPressandergmartinsandergmartins
Plugin Info
Version
1.2.4
Last Updated
Feb 19, 2026
WP Requires
5.5+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
7.2.5+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
38K+
Added
Jan 4, 2024
Business
Free

Tags

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