Content approval for WordPress
Human review and sign-off for WordPress content, with a record you can prove.
Content is produced faster than anyone can check it. Editant puts a named person between the draft and the Publish button: they read it, comment on it, and sign it off, and Editant records who did what and when in a form a third party can verify. Reviewers need no WordPress login. Everything runs on your own site.
Free for one site or a hundred. Pro from €79 a year.
The problem
Nobody can show who checked what
Drafts arrive from more places than they used to: staff, agencies, subject-matter experts, and increasingly a language model with a human tidying the output. The review, when it happens, is scattered across email threads, chat, a shared document and a phone call. When something goes out with an error in it, the question is not whether anyone read it. The question is whether you can prove that someone did, and what exactly they approved.
WordPress records the last editor and the publish date. It does not record that a person reviewed the final wording, what they said about it, or that they took responsibility for it. Editant does.
How it works
Draft, review, sign off, keep the record
Step 1
Generate a review link
Open any post, page or custom post type in the block editor and generate a link from the Editant sidebar. Set how long it lives and whether the reviewer has to give a name. Creating a link
Step 2
Send it to a person
Email, chat, a calendar invite, a ticket. The reviewer opens the link and sees the content as it will publish. No account, no password, nothing to install. Sharing the link
Step 3
They read, comment and decide
Threaded comments against the post, and a decision: Approve or Request changes. With Pro they comment on a specific sentence, propose the exact wording as a tracked change, and you accept or reject each one. Reviewing in the text
Step 4
The record stays with the post
Every comment, decision and reviewer identity is stored on your site, against the content it refers to. With Pro each approval is cryptographically signed against a snapshot of the exact text, and every event goes into a tamper-evident log. Signed approvals and the audit log
Evidence
What the record proves
A “last modified by” field proves that someone saved the post. Editant’s record proves that a named person reviewed a specific version and approved it.
- Who. Reviewer identity captured per link: name only, or name and email, your choice. Free Core. Anonymous links with Pro.
- What. Comments and decisions are stored against the post, not in a separate inbox. Free Core.
- Which version. Pro signs each approval against a hash of the content as it stood, so a later edit cannot be passed off as the approved one.
- That nothing was altered afterwards. Pro writes every event to an append-only log where each entry is chained to the one before. Change a row and the chain breaks at that point.
- Outside your own database. Pro publishes the chain head by scheduled email digest and signed webhook, so completeness can be checked by someone who does not trust your server.
- In a form a lawyer or auditor can use. Export approvals as PDF certificates or JSON, verifiable with the site’s public key. No Editant account, no vendor tool.
Read how the audit chain works
For the people in the loop
Tools for the reviewer and the author
The human in the loop only works if the human is not the bottleneck. Editant gives the reviewer and the author the tools that make a review quick to do and hard to skip.
For the reviewer
- Comments anchored to a block or a text range, highlighted in the content. Pro. Reviewing in the text
- Suggestions as tracked changes: propose the wording, not a description of it. Pro. Suggesting changes
- A view of what changed since they last approved, so a re-review reads only the difference. Pro. Comparing changes
- Deadlines with reminder emails, so nothing waits for a nudge. Pro. Review deadlines
For the author
- Every review link, reviewer and decision on one dashboard. Free Core. Dashboard overview
- A re-review request that emails the right reviewers when the draft changes. Free Core. Requesting a re-review
- Quorum: require two of three reviewers, or all of them, before the Publish button unlocks. Pro. Publish quorum
- An AI assistant on your own OpenAI, Google or Anthropic key, through WordPress Connectors: turn a reviewer’s comment into a concrete edit, summarise a long thread, find where reviewers contradict each other, audit a draft before it goes out. Every AI action is logged like any other. Nothing passes through us. Pro. Connecting an AI provider
Free Core and Pro
Free Core covers the review. Pro turns it into evidence.
| Free Core | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Review links, no reviewer login | Yes | Yes |
| Threaded comments and Approve / Request changes decisions | Yes | Yes |
| Link expiry, revocation, reviewer identity capture | Yes | Yes |
| Dashboard, email notifications, re-review requests | Yes | Yes |
| GDPR export and erasure through WordPress core | Yes | Yes |
| Inline comments and tracked-changes suggestions | Yes | |
| Multi-reviewer quorum and publish gating | Yes | |
| Signed approvals, hash-chained audit log, attestation | Yes | |
| Per-link passwords, IP allow-lists, view-once links | Yes | |
| Deadlines, reminders, reviewer invitations | Yes | |
| White-labelled reviewer page and emails | Yes | |
| AI review assistant on your own key | Yes | |
| Price | Free, GPL, on WordPress.org | From €79 a year, 7-day trial |
Who it’s for
Built for the people who carry the responsibility
- Agencies. Your client signs off the page from a link, and the dashboard shows when, who and what.
- Editorial and content teams. Legal, compliance and subject-matter experts review without a WordPress account, and the internal workflow tool you already use is not replaced.
- Regulated content. Financial services, pharma, healthcare, legal: every customer-facing piece gets a signed approval and an audit trail an examiner can verify.
- Teams drafting with AI. The model writes faster than you can read. Editant makes sure a person still reads it, and proves they did.
Continue: What is Editant → How it works → Who it’s for → Read the documentation
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