The PublishPress Statuses plugin allows you to create additional statuses for your posts. You can use each status to create publishing workflows.
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.
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.
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…
Workflow? This is an essential feature for sites having multiple editors. The flow steps can be customized. Perfect.
Has more features and complexity than I needed, but it works great for adding some custom post statuses.
Great, good that it is now a plugin of its own and not part of the planner plugin
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2.5+ required |
The full changelog can be found on GitHub.
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