If you manage a blog with multiple authors, like our client Drink Up Columbus, it can be a challenge to keep track of who’s working on what and when.

The free WordPress plugin Edit Flow has a TON of tools that make group blogging easy and efficient. Custom statuses allow you to define key stages of your workflow – for Drink Up Columbus, it’s Pitch, Assigned, In Progress and Pending Review. The Editorial Comments allow the Editor to send messages to writers about their posts (particularly useful for the “Pitch” and “Pending Review” stages.) Notification emails instantly alert the writer/editor when a post changes status – telling the editor when a post is now in progress or is ready for review, and telling the writer when their content is live.

Other features of Edit Flow include a convenient month-by-month calendar look at your content, editorial metadata to keep track of the important details and user groups to keep users organized by department or functional role.