Did you try Oasis Workflow – https://wordpress.org/plugins/oasis-workflow/
The plugin allows you to create custom workflow for your editorial review process.
You can use “user role editor” plugin to give those extra capabilities to the contributor role – edit_posts, edit_pages.
The Oasis Workflow plugin will display a “Submit to Workflow” button instead of the regular “Publish” button. The post/page flows through the review process eventually allowing the administrator/publisher to publish the article after the review is complete.
Hope this helps.
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ajcke
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I did try the Oasis Workflow plugin. It didn’t have the functionality I need for already published pages/posts. There didn’t seem to be a way to setup “Submit to Workflow” for other user’s already published pages/posts.
I’m trying out the Role Editor plugin right now. A contributor is able to edit other posts and set the featured image, but even if edit_pages and edit_other_pages is selected for the contributor this user still cannot ad a new page or modify existing pages. 🙁 If it could do that it would be perfect!
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ajcke
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It looks like the contributor can modify other user pages and add new pages. Adding a new page/post a contributor can submit for review and add a featured image. That’s good. But when modifying an existing published page by another author the contributor has the option to update the page without submitting for review and the contributor does not have the option to update the featured image. When modifying another user’s published post a contributor can modify the featured image, but can update the post instead of submit for review.
For working with published articles, you will require the “Pro” version of Oasis Workflow.
One of the features of the “Pro” version is to allow to revise published articles, let the revision flow through the workflow, while keeping the published article online. Check out the following – https://www.oasisworkflow.com/workflow-support-for-updating-published-content
Hope that helps.
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ajcke
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It looks like the Pro version works for already published posts and pages. That’s good. Does it allow the contributor/revisor to modify the featured image for already published posts and pages? Is there a way to remove the “Publish” button and only enable the “Submit to Workflow” button for the contributor/revisor user?
What I want to do is turn high school students to post and update pages on our school website that has over 100 pages, but they cannot have direct publish access. If the Pro version of Oasis Workflow can do this. I’m sold.
We used to use the former version of Press Permit (Role Scoper, Revisionary) but it doesn’t allow us to turn our students loose on our school site like it used to.
Yes, it allows the contributor/revisor to modify the featured image. Essentially, it allows to update any part of the post, including ACF custom attributes, tags, categories etc.
It also has a “compare tool” which shows the differences between the published article and the revised article. There is an add-on for ACF compare as well.
Yes, you can control who can see the publish button by using the [ow_skip_workflow] custom capability.
Check out http://www.oasisworkflow.com/ to learn more about the features and add-ons.
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ajcke
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Thanks nuggetsol. That is exactly what we need.
