Has Edit Flow been discontinued?

I contacted the original developer, Daniel, who confirmed it looked like Edit Flow was dead in the water and referred me to Automattic.

I contacted Automattic, which resulted in a response from WordPress.com Support who said “We don’t officially support the Edit Flow plugin here” and referred me back to this forum. Too bad, as there are many useful Edit Flow features.

This is terrible news! If Edit Flow is being discontinued, I really hope Automattic or Jetpack will take up this much needed plugin concept.

I actually just sent some feature requests and UX feedback to [email protected] and would love to work with any developers taking this forward.

Hi folks,

Just a note to say that Automattic does still support Edit Flow.

This plugin is is currently used by a number of editorial teams at sites hosted on WordPress.com VIP and remains a featured plugin on VIP .

It’s true that dev. progress on the plugin of late has been slow-to-nil, but due to some helpful feedback and renewed interest, we’re hoping to make progress soon on outstanding PRs and issues.

If you’d like to contribute to Edit Flow, please feel free to visit the github repo and get involved.

Thanks,

Matt Perry
WordPress.com VIP

Last update was 2013! Really love this plugin and hope development on it will continue soon.

+1

+1 — would love to see this plugin make a comeback.

Absolutely! Is there a mechanism by which someone can take it over?

It is still being worked on over at https://github.com/automattic/edit-flow
It does not seem ready for official release, but lot of bugs have been fixed and anyone can download and install the work-in-progress version. I got so happy over seeing work being done on it that I’ve begun to contribute there with some small bits.

Last commits on the github seem to be 4 months old and nothing since then. I hope they release a stable onto WordPress Plugin db. :/

I hope they release soon :/ This is frustrating…

Edit Flow is the most important plugin I’ve found for running a multi-author site and one of the absolute best plugins I’ve come across so far.

I rely on using this plugin and I’ve got a lot of data saved up in it from editorial comments. If we were to lose it it would be a huge loss and we wouldn’t be able to function nearly as well.

The Editflow website offers no way to contribute financially. Is there someone who can update this, I’d be willing to pay for it and likely many others too.

I agree. A great plugin and worth paying for. I would like to see it updated and the bugs worked out.

Hi,

Thanks @olope, @tstone, @bigvibes for your feedback. Like many other WP users, I believe this is one of the most valuable plugins ever designed for WP. As a journalist, I have been following WP development of professional-grade editorial features: the ones that make WP a full editorial environment, fit for media clients.

It should be obvious by now that media production features for WordPress are attracting tons of developers and design studios. Just check, besides Edit Flow, solutions like IssuesM, Betaout ContentCloud, CollabPress, CoSchedule, Magma… Even Google might be working on its own full CMS.

That is why I would encourage the authors and contributors of Edit Flow to fully develop and update this plugin, and maybe provide a two-tier solution (free and premium version). It would be a great news for the WordPress community. The fact that is seems to be lingering in a dev limbo (or sidetracked for WP Vip clients, sigh) keeps many non-expert users from actually using it in their websites.

And a big thank you for authoring this tool!

Best

+1, would be great to have this “back”.

I was introduced to Edit Flow by Matthew MacDonald’s “WordPress: The Missing Manual” which prompted me to install it… until I learned it hasn’t been updated since WordPress 3.8. Is there another plugin that incorporates the structure to manage a multistage post reviewal process?

Thanks,
Don