Title: Restoring Default Publishing Workflow
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Restoring Default Publishing Workflow

 *  Resolved [danbru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danbru/)
 * (@danbru)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-default-publishing-workflow/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justingreerbbi/)
 * (@justingreerbbi)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-default-publishing-workflow/#post-5781425)
 * 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](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuggetsol/)
 * (@nuggetsol)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-default-publishing-workflow/#post-5781428)
 * 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/](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danbru/)
 * (@danbru)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-default-publishing-workflow/#post-5781429)
 * I deactivated the plugin and deleted – Clicking “Yes, Remove all files…”
 * Also checked my file structure and database for any leftovers.
 *  Thread Starter [danbru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danbru/)
 * (@danbru)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-default-publishing-workflow/#post-5781437)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danbru/)
 * (@danbru)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-default-publishing-workflow/#post-5781700)
 * Any more thoughts on this?
 *  [macbookandrew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macbookandrew/)
 * (@macbookandrew)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-default-publishing-workflow/#post-5781724)
 * [@danbru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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](http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/04/compare-two-files-with-filemerge/)
   or a similar diff tool to look for differences (FileMerge is part of Xcode, which
   you can [get from the app store](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?ls=1&mt=12)).
 *  Thread Starter [danbru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danbru/)
 * (@danbru)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-default-publishing-workflow/#post-5781755)
 * 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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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 7 replies
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 * Last reply from: [danbru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danbru/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-default-publishing-workflow/#post-5781755)
 * Status: resolved

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