Available Assignments function

You may check this one, might help you partially
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/cleverness-to-do-list/

Thanks for the help.

I am new to this software but when I was searching plugins, I came across one called workflow. Is that also similar to what I described above?

may I have the link please

I came across this thread and thought to share the plugin – https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/oasis-workflow/

See if Oasis Workflow works for you.

Oasis Workflow comes with graphical workflow editor and has the “inbox” and “claim” feature which lets the users view their work and once done sign off and send the post/page to the next user in the workflow.

Oasis Workflow Pro comes with a lot of additional features including workflow support for published content. – check out the site at https://www.oasisworkflow.com/

Yeah, Oasis Workflow was what I was referring to.

I have one question that wasn’t answered in any of the videos on the page that the link takes me to: Can I assign it so it sends the author of a specific blog post an email telling them if their post has been approved or disapproved?

To the guy who wanted the link, do you mean the link to the plugin or my blog/website?

Every time a post is assigned to a specific user, the system sends an email about the assignment.

There is a reminder feature, which reminds about any pending assignments.

However, there is no notification sent to the author of the specific post about the status of their article. It would be a nice feature to add to the plugin.

Are there any additional plugins that you can recommend that have that feature?

I think there are a few plugins which can do that..

I found one which looks very promising – https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/publish-post-email-notification/

Thanks for the suggestion.

I also would like to ask, are you by any chance familer with the the technology used by WhatCulture?

If you are not familiar with it, there is a page in the article editing panel which has a section called “Available Assignments” and it has a list of articles available to be claimed by any contributed, subject to approval. The section has photos of the article subjects and a brief description of what the admin and editors expect from the person who claims the article in the end.

That is what I am hoping to work off of when I try to get a plugin that serves those requirements. I am hoping Oasis Workflow is capable of those demands. Should I get the regular version or pro?

I briefly looked at the site whatculture.com but couldn’t find the section called “Available Assignments”. May be it’s only available for logged in users.

Oasis Workflow works within the perimeters of WordPress Admin area. So anyone who wants to edit/review articles needs to login into WordPress to access their inbox and review/sign off their task.

You can try and use the “regular” version and see how it works. See if it fits your needs and then look at the “Pro” version for automation and other features.

The advantage you would get with the “Pro” version are:
1. You can create multiple workflows.

2. You can setup “auto submit” depending on some keywords. So essentially, the articles will get auto submitted into a workflow and all the users will get an assignment in their inbox. Who ever claims it first will be responsible for that article.

3. Lastly, the published article can also go through a workflow review process without taking the published article offline. Almost all the users love this feature, since WordPress doesn’t have a way to update published articles through a review process without taking the article offline.

Lastly, there are a couple of reports which help with the management of articles.

You can see a complete list of features and how they work on the website – https://www.oasisworkflow.com/pricing-purchase

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the help.

The “Available Assignments” section on the website WhatCulture that I was talking about was for writers only. It was in the admin section.

It was a list of assignments available to be claimed by any contributor and editor and contained photo’s of the subject of each article and descriptions of what was expected of the people claiming the articles.

There were big blue or red buttons that said something like “claim this article” and there were boxes which appeared after you clicked the button which asked you what type of article you wanted to write (slideshow, normal article, etc.), some more detail of what you were going to include in the article and when you expected to complete the article by. You then had to wait around a day or more until getting emailed about whether you were approved or disapproved to write the article.

Yeah, it helped a lot.