Editloft
Editorial workflow for WordPress. A lean fork of Edit Flow: custom statuses, editorial calendar, editorial comments, and assignment metadata.
by Christopher Ross · github.com/thisismyurl/editloft · website
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Install
The author publishes release zips, so WP-CLI can install straight from GitHub:
wp plugin install https://github.com/thisismyurl/editloft/releases/download/0.6218.1049/editloft-0.6218.1049.zipFrom the readme
Editloft
Editorial workflow for WordPress. Custom statuses, an editorial calendar, private editorial comments, assignment metadata, and notifications, in one lean plugin that stays out of your way.
Editloft is a fork of Edit Flow, the editorial-workflow plugin originally written by Mohammad Jangda and Daniel Bachhuber and later maintained by Automattic.
Why this exists
I ran newsroom-style publishing on WordPress for years, and Edit Flow was the tool I trusted for it. Custom statuses so a post could be a pitch before it was a draft. An editorial calendar so I could see the week at a glance. Private notes between an editor and a writer that never showed up on the front end.
Then Edit Flow stopped being maintained. The community picked it up and grew it into a larger commercial suite, which is a good outcome, but it carried more than I wanted for my own sites. I needed the small, sharp core back: the five or six things I actually used every day, rebuilt for the block editor and current WordPress, with nothing I would have to switch off on install.
So I built the version I needed. If it turns out to be the version you needed too, that is the whole point of sharing it.
What it d
Read the full README on GitHub →
Releases
| Tag | Published | Asset | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.6218.1049 | Aug 6, 2026 | editloft-0.6218.1049.zip | 2 |
| 0.6199.0938 | Jul 18, 2026 | editloft-0.6199.0938.zip | 2 |
| 0.6194.1016 | Jul 13, 2026 | editloft-0.6194.1016.zip | 2 |