About Editant
What is Editant?
Editant is a content approval plugin for WordPress. It puts a named person between a draft and the Publish button, and keeps a record of who reviewed what, what they said, and what they signed off. It works through secure review links: reviewers read, comment and approve without a WordPress account, and everything runs on your own site.
The problem it solves
More content, produced faster, by more hands: staff, agencies, subject-matter experts and, increasingly, a language model with a person tidying the output. Publishing is easy. Proving that a competent person read the final wording and took responsibility for it is not. WordPress records the last editor and the publish date. It does not record a review.
The review that does happen lives in email and chat. A draft goes out as a screenshot or a staging URL, comments come back in three different threads, approvals are verbal, and by the time the content is ready nobody is sure which version was signed off.
Editant centralises the review on the post itself. Reviewers get one link, comments are threaded against the content they refer to, each decision is recorded against a named reviewer, and the author sees all of it inside the WordPress admin.
What’s in Free Core
- Secure review links for any post, page or custom post type. Creating a link
- Reviewer access without a WordPress account. Sharing the link
- Threaded comments, with email notifications to author and reviewer.
- Approve / Request changes decisions, recorded per reviewer. The post detail view
- A re-review request that emails the reviewers when the draft changes. Requesting a re-review
- A dashboard of every review link, reviewer and decision on the site. Dashboard overview
- Configurable link expiry and reviewer identity capture: name only, or name and email. Anonymous links with Pro.
- Token revocation and regeneration. The post detail view
- SHA-256 hashed token storage and rate-limited public endpoints. How it works
- GDPR data export and erasure wired into WordPress core’s privacy tools.
- Translation-ready, with a populated .pot file.
- GPL-2.0-or-later, distributed through WordPress.org.
What Pro adds
- Inline comments anchored to specific blocks or text ranges. Reviewing in the text
- Tracked-changes suggestions the author accepts or rejects. Suggesting changes
- A comparison view of what changed since the last approval. Comparing changes
- Multi-reviewer quorum and approval gates on the Publish button. Publish quorum
- Cryptographically signed approvals and a hash-chained audit log, exportable as JSON or PDF. Signed approvals and the audit log
- Deadlines and reminders. Review deadlines
- Per-link access control: passwords, IP allow-list, view-once, anonymous links. Per-link access control
- AI review assistant on your own OpenAI, Google or Anthropic key, through WordPress Connectors (WordPress 7.0 or later). Connecting an AI provider
- Reviewer invitations and a reviewer directory. Inviting reviewers
- White-labelling of the reviewer page and notification emails.
- Retention windows, attestation digests and signed webhooks.
The Pro page explains each of these in depth. Pricing starts at €79 a year for one site.
Why self-hosted
Editant runs entirely on your WordPress installation. There is no SaaS account, no per-reviewer fee, and no third-party data processing for review activity. For agencies and compliance teams, that means no procurement of an external sub-processor, no data leaving the jurisdiction the site is hosted in, and full ownership of the review record.
AI features in the Pro tier are opt-in and use your own provider key. Editant does not proxy AI calls, meter credits, or send content to any service you have not configured.
What it doesn’t do
Editant focuses on external editorial review. It does not replace internal editorial workflow tools; those handle the in-team multi-step review where every participant has a WordPress login. Editant fills the gap for reviewers who don’t have one. The two pair well; neither replaces the other.
It also isn’t a design feedback tool. Click-anywhere-on-the-rendered-page comments are a different problem with different incumbents. Editant is about editorial review and sign-off, not visual design feedback.
Frequently asked questions
Do reviewers need a WordPress account?
No. Reviewers open the link you send and see the content directly. You can require them to enter a name, or a name and email, before they comment.
What can I send for review?
Posts, pages and any public custom post type. Each is handled the same way: generate a link, share it, collect comments and decisions.
Can I revoke a link after sharing it?
Yes. Open the post in the dashboard and revoke the link. It stops working immediately; any later visit gets a 404.
What happens when a link expires?
It returns a 404. You can regenerate it, which issues a fresh token and retires the old one, or extend the expiry from the dashboard.
Is reviewer data sent anywhere outside my site?
No. Comments, decisions and reviewer details are stored in your own WordPress database. IP addresses and user agents are hashed with a per-site salt before storage. Pro’s AI features send content only to the provider you connect with your own key, and never through us.
Does Editant work with the Classic Editor?
No. The sidebar where you create and manage review links is part of the block editor.
Does it work on multisite?
Yes. Each subsite gets its own tables and links, and network activation is supported.
What does Pro cost?
From €79 a year for one site, with a 7-day free trial and a 14-day money-back guarantee on your first purchase. Every tier has every feature; the tiers differ only by how many sites you run it on. See pricing
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