Why Get Email Notifications for Posts Pending Review in WordPress?

When you first start your WordPress blog you’ll probably do everything yourself. You’ll come up with all the ideas for your content, write and proofread the posts, and publish them when they’re finished.

As your blog grows, you may get other writers involved in contributing to your blog. That can be a lot more work!

You’ll need to collaborate with them and keep them on track. You’ll have to become more deliberate when planning and scheduling your content. And you’ll have to review each article before you publish it.

There are plenty of ways you can improve the editorial process. One thing that really helps is to receive a notification when a post is pending review.

Without these notifications, you’ll have to constantly visit your blog’s dashboard to check up on the progress of each post.

You could set up email notifications for all post changes on WordPress, but with a busy multi-author blog, that may be too many emails.

Luckily, there is an excellent plugin that makes setting up more specific notifications easy.

PublishPress is the best plugin for multi-author WordPress blogs. It sends email notifications when a post’s status is changed in WordPress, along with adding tons of other features.

How to Get Email Notifications for Posts Pending Review in WordPress

The first thing you need to do is install and activate the PublishPress plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Note: There is a paid version of PublishPress with more advanced features, but we will be using the free version in this tutorial.

Upon activation, a PublishPress section is added to your WordPress dashboard. To create a new notification you need to visit the PublishPress » Notifications page.