January 20, 2012 Over the past couple of weeks we’ve had some very interesting WordPress questions sent in by our readers here at WPMU, and some great suggestions and ideas from the WordPress ninjas in our community.
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Friday’s question was sent in to us by a reader named Bob. He asks:
Is there a way to give someone – a virtual assistant, for example – access to your WordPress site so they can do work on it (design, development etc.), but have the work queued, and not applied until it has been approved by an administrator? Much like comments or guest posts awaiting approval.
A screw up, whether accidental or malicious, is far easier to “fix” by not letting it happen in the first place, rather than having to go back and fix things.
-Bob
What are your thoughts, WordPressers? If you can give Bob any suggestions or ideas, we’d love to hear about them. Please leave a comment below this article and let us know.
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You could look into DeployMint:
http://code.google.com/p/deploymint/
Give them access to the staging site and deploy when you’re ready.
In CMS terminology, this is known as ‘Workflow’ and is a common feature of more commercial platforms. Out of the box with WP you don’t have much in the way of options, you would need to implement your own process and hope everyone sticks to it. E.g. Only save your changes as drafts – and notify me when you have so I can check them. There are some plugins that can approximate a Workflow, such as ‘Post Revision Workflow’. But they still require some manual work. A comprehensive workflow function would allow you to set up multiple funnels of approvals (setting who can approve by role, individual etc) even having multiple levels of approval. And provide an interface that would show the reviewer what had changed and a simple way to approve & publish, tweak further and publish – or reject and send back to the originator with comments on what needs to change. I’m not aware of a plugin that does all this – but it might be that I just haven’t come across it yet!
Thanks for the info Simon!
Cheers
Tim
If you wanna do it at live site, use a dummy site, not on the real site.
if you will do at dummy site it will be good and safer and better than to use real site
http://www.wp-coder.net/wordpress-question-how-can-i-moderate-changes-made-to-my-site/
Are they copying you?
Hi Joey,
Yes, they’re copying us :)
Pay no attention to crappy sites like that, it’s just spammy rubbish.
Thanks for the comment!
Cheers
Tim