WordPress Plug-ins for Successfully Managing an Editorial Team – Part 2

Do you remember the post about WordPress plug-ins for successfully managing an editorial team that we posted a couple of months ago? Well, the time has finally come for the sequel. Because there are various media companies and publishing houses today that do not require full-time in-house writers for their content, hiring a freelance talent has become a flexible and cost effective way to import skills and fresh perspectives.

So we’ve put together a second series of helpful WordPress plug-ins that will come in handy with managing any team of remote content contributors:

1. Newsflow

Newsflow is a WordPress plugin that was earlier known as Hypernews. This plugin provides quick editorial support along with a fast user interface wherein you can choose and publish RSS streams over your WordPress based site or blog. You can easily add different links with the feature called Link Management, which is a sub menu found in this plugin. Using the Newsflow user interface, you can obtain and list a number of your feeds and can also keep track of a number of items which are read; thus, you can mark your favorites or even hide them all.

If you want to edit any post from your WordPress site or blog, then you  just have to click over the post type links shown at every individual item row. In case you want to save your post in draft for further editing or reviewing, this feature is also available in this plugin. This helps you save your article as draft posts and later do the corrections before publishing them. The benefits of this plugin can be explored in WordPress version 3.2 or higher.

2. Ice Visual Revisions

Ice Visual Revisions is another WordPress plugin that will impart you with the ability of visually distinguishing the changes executed in the post content, depending upon your approval or cancellation of those changes. Ice Library, which was a development of The New York Times specialized CMS group is the base upon which Ice Visual Revisions has been designed. The main features available are:

• The ability to track inserts by multiple users along with deleting. The option of turning on and off the ability to track or highlight is also present.
• Some additional support for other plugins in WordPress is also present.
• Optional features allowing tracking copy-cut-pasting, creation of em-dashes and converting smart quotes is also present.

There have been various imitations and dependencies found in this plugin:

• Dependency on jQuery
• Initialization possible after initialization of DOM ready events.
• Compatibility issues with various modern browsers like Firefox 5 or Internet Explorer 7

3. VoteIt

VoteIt is another WordPress plugin that is an added help in your decision making process within the collaboration with freelancers. The revolutionary platform is generated for mutual discussions, debates and decisions. A rating widget with rating in stars marks the creation and management of content. Polldaddy station is also available to assist in case of any problem. Appreciation around bbPress contribution is incorporated within the system. Rewarded members point and set the award via Cube point integration. It adds AJAX implementation on your blog post. Moreover, in the advanced settings section, the thumb rule and directed rating hikes the priority. Finally, it is effective as status notification indicator, but take into consideration its administrative complexity.

Managing a full fledged team of freelancers is no more a matter of concern now. You don’t need to burn a hole in your pocket to keep your web site updated on a regular basis and there is no skipping of deadlines anymore. Go ahead and try out the above mentioned plugins for your WordPress site and let us know in the comments section below what your favorite plugin is.