Restoring Default Publishing Workflow

  • Resolved danbru

    (@danbru)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    When setting up my site, I tested several plugins that could assist in creating a nice publishing workflow for our people. (Draft, Pending Review, Published…)

    I ended up not using any of the plugins and they have all since been removed.

    Unfortunately, my now Editors cannot post. When publishing, their posts are marked “Pending Review” and do not appear on the blog roll until an admin edits & publishes the post.

    How can I restore the default workflow?

    I believe one of the plugins was EditFlow, but I tried others too and cannot find any traces of them in my WordPress file structure or database.

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  • Justin Greer

    (@justingreerbbi)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    I am not familiar with EditFlow, but you will have better luck posting this in the plugin support thread here; https://wordpress.org/support/theme/exray

    Sounds like it may have modified some files and did not revert them when you removed the plugin. Have you tried removing the plugin completely?

    nuggetsol

    (@nuggetsol)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Do you have a plugin which helps you control the roles and responsibilities – like “user role editor”.

    See if the “editor” role has rights to publish the article. That might be the reason the “editor” role is not able to publish any more.

    BTW, I’m the author for Oasis Workflow plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/oasis-workflow/

    The plugin is intended to help users create editorial workflows and streamline the publishing process.

    If you tried Oasis Workflow and it didn’t work for you, I would be curious to know your requirements, which will help us to add additional functionality to the plugin.

    Thread Starter danbru

    (@danbru)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    I deactivated the plugin and deleted – Clicking “Yes, Remove all files…”

    Also checked my file structure and database for any leftovers.

    Thread Starter danbru

    (@danbru)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Thank you, nuggetsol. I will keep your plugin in mind if I need it for a future project. We don’t really need a custom workflow at this time, so I’m just trying to restore.

    Yes, I am using a user controller – Advanced Access Manager. But when I check all the setting there, everything looks right. Editors have the capability to Publish Posts. It doesn’t seem like the problem is there.

    Thread Starter danbru

    (@danbru)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Any more thoughts on this?

    macbookandrew

    (@macbookandrew)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    @danbru You might take a look at the wp_options table to see if there’s anything in there that might be related to it.

    Do you happen to have a backup of the site before you installed the plugins? If so, pull a copy of the database from the backup and a current SQL export and use FileMerge or a similar diff tool to look for differences (FileMerge is part of Xcode, which you can get from the app store).

    Thread Starter danbru

    (@danbru)

    9 years ago

    Got this fixed. Turns out that it was a simple setting in the Advanced Access Manager plugin and entirely unrelated to EditFlow.

    In the AAM plugin, I had a custom setting configured that kept reverting a “published” post back to “pending” for a particular user.

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