Zensor

Zensor enforces a two-step publishing workflow in WordPress. Complete documentation can be found below.

Downloads

Download Latest Version 0.7.1 for WordPress 2.1 — 2.2

The source code can also be found in the WP-Plugins SVN repository at http://svn.wp-plugins.org/zensor/.

Description

Zensor enforces a two-step publishing workflow in WordPress. The two steps are:

1. An author submits an article (post/page) for review.
2. A moderator approves or disapproves the article.

The article is only visible after the second step. The author can add a note that the moderator can read when evaluating the article. Similarly, the moderator can include a justification for his/her decision.

Moderators

Who is a moderator is determined by the zensor_moderate capability. Upon installation, the Administrator is assigned this capability. Also, a new role, Zensor Moderator is created, which only has this capability and read. This is a dedicated user for moderation, eliminating potential conflicts of interest. The Zensor Moderator cannot modify posts in any way except to accept/reject them and add a note that will be sent back to the author. Perfect for the boss who needs to sign off on everything, but shouldn’t be allowed to add his own opinion. If you’d like other roles to be able to moderate, then you can grant them the zensor_moderate capability using the Role Manager plugin.

Notifications

Every time someone does something, the other party is notified. These notifications include:

• Hello author, your article was just approved/rejected.
• Hello moderator, an article was just saved that you need to look at.

Notifications are currently batched to occur once per day, to prevent a deluge of messages hitting the moderators. This will be configurable in a future version. All messages can be edited through the options interface.

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Installation

Important Note: Upon installation, all posts and pages are put into the awaiting state and will need to be approved/rejected.

1. Upload the zensor directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Goto the Manage->Zensor panel and Approve/Reject the existing posts and pages

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Frequently Asked Questions

I activated the plugin and now nothing shows up on my blog! Where’d it all go?

When you activate the plugin, all posts and pages are put into the awaiting state. This means that they’re no longer viewable to normal users. To get them back, you need to either approve or reject them. This can be done from the Manage->Zensor panel. If you want to approve all of them, you can scroll to the bottom of the screen and hit Bulk Approve.

This isn’t working out for me. How do I get rid of the plugin cleanly?

That’s sorry to hear. I’d love to hear what you didn’t like.
Let me know!

If you still want to uninstall the plugin, go to the Options->Zensor panel and scroll to the bottom of the screen. There you’ll find an Uninstall button.

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Screenshots

1. Write a note that will be displayed to the moderator. Note the tip at the bottom of the page.
   
2. Filter pages/posts based on the moderation status.
   
3. Moderator page to view all of the pages/posts in the Zensor system.
   
4. Moderator page with preview of post and form for moderator. Note the bulk buttons at the bottom of the page.
   
5. Sample email that a moderator receives when a post is made.
   

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Version History

Version 0.7.1

• Removed a hardcoded database prefix. (thanks, shafeng)
• Changed the minimum WordPress version required to 2.1. It was incorrectly set to 2.0.2. (thanks, Keith)

Version 0.7

• No longer batches author emails because each email now includes a reply-to header to the moderator that moderated the post.
• Now only notifies moderators for posts that are ‘published’.
• Now deletes orphaned posts upon activation.
• Most SQL queries exclude non-published posts/pages.
• Notifications frequency is now selectable.
• Added fix to work with Improved Include Page plugin. Thanks, Vincent!
• Moved localizing out of javascript file.

Version 0.6

• Moved development to wp-plugins.org
• Administrator is granted zensor_moderate capability on activation

Version 0.5

• First push to Siebold Gymnasium website