Wordpress is a CMS dedicated to blogging. Many web designers have fallen in love with Wordpress for it's ease of use and customization potential.With Wordpress 3.5 now available to the market, what will the blogging platform have in it's sights next?
An editorial workflow would elevate this website content management system into a much more impactful tool. Giving Wordpress the ability to have content stages aiming towards live publication would be a powerful capability--giving the solution an edge towards being an enterprise-class Content Management System. Workflow will empower news teams, corporations and multi-author and editor agencies to embrace the CMS.
For bloggers, building workflow tools into the CMS was not a critical need. As Wordpress is adopted by businesses, news agencies, publishing companies and other (larger) organizations, workflow becomes a looming and pressing need. The Edit Flow plugin is a fantastic contendor to serve this purpose in the next iteration of Wordpress. Edit Flow is a workflow system with a content publishing calendar, author meta data, notifications, custom status and more. Essentially, this tool (or it's protégé) will empower teams to assemble content in a professional, industrial manner.
Wordpress 3.6 may help elevate Wordpress's status as a CMS, and a professional, team-focused workflow-system will help elevate and provide professional-grade, quality-building publishing tools to Wordpress's original audience... bloggers.