A simpler process, you can remove author’s capability to publish_posts so they can’t publish them but instead need to submit it for review. So it’s saved as a draft until an admin reviews it and manually publishes it.

@delcorny, you are essentially looking for a one-step workflow as shown on https://www.oasisworkflow.com/documentation/basic-concepts/commonly-used-workflows

Essentially, your first step in the workflow should be the “publish” step. This step will act as “review and publish”. Then from this step, you create a failure/red connection to “assignment” step. So, if the publisher/reviewer doesn’t like something he/she can reject/unable to complete and it will go to assignment step.

See if this helps.

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