WordPress Plugin: Dashboard Pending Review – Keep Track of Guest Posts
Posted by: dragonblogger // Category: bloggingNow that I have opened myself up to being a contributor blog and accepting guest posts from some other bloggers I realized that wordpress by default does not give you an easy way to keep track of who submitted a guest post for review. You have to manually check your Edit Posts section and weed through to find any contributors who have submitted a post for review and I had forgotten for a few days and was late publishing a few guest posts at first.
A WordPress Plug-in called Dashboard Pending Review solves this problem easily. Once you install the plug-in you get a new module on your WordPress Dashboard that lists all posts that are Pending Review just like the “Scheduled Post” plug-in shows which posts are scheduled.
This makes it much easier to manage and administrate the various articles and posts that are submitted for review and are up and publishing in the next few days. I highly recommend this plug-in if you run a contributor blog where you approve posts that are submitted for review manually. It will help you keep track of submitted posts so you can see them immediately and without having to search or click on extra steps to find them.
-Dragon Blogger
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March 9th, 2010 at 8:03 am
Hey there thanks for the advice this should help me save some time managing my wordpress blogs!
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March 9th, 2010 at 8:34 am
Too bad I’m not open for guest bloggers yet. And when I do, I’m afraid I might have forgotten about this plugin
I need to be able to attach an URL to certain memories in my brain 
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March 9th, 2010 at 9:31 am
I use the plugin “collaboration emails” which sends out an email to the administrator or editor of the specific category on WordPress. I use it on my content social network for bloggers: http://mediapress.co.za
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March 9th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Thanks for the additional link Anton. I actually had a guest blogger get really upset and ask me why I hadn’t published any of his articles only to find I didn’t even know they were on the site! So the plugin you mentioned should help.
Chris Guthrie
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March 10th, 2010 at 1:15 am
A useful tool for blog that accept guest posting i think. And i just aware that you accept a guest posting, i think i will try to submit once here.
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March 10th, 2010 at 3:20 am
I have a similar plugin that display a bubble when a post is pending review, I also have a plugin called “Status Notifications” that will email the guest bloggers when their post has been approved, very handy for keeping in touch and letting the gust know what’s going on with their post.
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March 10th, 2010 at 7:31 am
Thanks Karen, this should come in very handy as well.
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March 10th, 2010 at 7:32 am
Justin, does this list all posts sitting in draft mode or do you have to have one of those guest account things set up?
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March 10th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
The wordpress “Drafts” will automatically display all drafts even contributors drafts I think.
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March 11th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Right, but will the plugin section do the same thing…show contributor drafts and mine?
Dennis Edell´s last blog ..How Do You Cover SEO *Per Post*?
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March 11th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
No, it will only show after the user actually submits for review, it won’t show if they leave it draft for themselves (because it isn’t ready for review and approval)
March 11th, 2010 at 10:30 am
This looks to be a great plugin for sites like ours that have regular contributors as well as guest bloggers. Thanks for the share.
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June 19th, 2010 at 8:39 am
Thanks, I will try it and see…or maybe the other one mentioned above – Status Notifications.
I just opened my blog to guest bloggers and installed Guest Blogger plugin from WP but the settings won’t stay as Draft or Current User..what am I doing wrong??
Thanks,
Patty
Patty Zasloff´s last blog ..Smith Squared
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