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PublishPress Revisions: Duplicate Posts, Submit, Approve and Schedule Content Changes
A dependable gatekeeper for your site's content updates.
HealthyGrowing
88/100
This plugin offers a reliable workflow for content moderation. The setup process can feel cumbersome. It is a solid tool for editors.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.6★
64 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+18%
Growing
205 → 243 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +18% in the last year
205/day a year ago→243/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayPublishPress Revisions is widely praised for its reliable scheduling and revision workflow, strong support, and unique functionality, though users note a cumbersome setup and lack of granular email notification options.
What people like
- +Allows scheduling revisions and updates for future dates×5
- +Enables working on an article multiple times without forcing immediate publication
- +Provides unique functionality not found in other plugins×2
- +User-friendly for non-developers, with a simple duplicate-edit workflow
- +Demonstrates long-term reliability with few bugs×3
- +Fast, courteous, and knowledgeable support×2
- +High level of customization across PublishPress plugins
- +Free version offers sufficient features for personal blogs
- +Preserves old content while allowing easy submission of revisions
Common complaints
- −Setup and editing process is cumbersome with multiple steps, making mistakes easy
- −Cannot send revision notification emails to individual users or custom roles
- −Plugin updates can break the revision process due to configuration issues
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.60★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 3%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-01-162025-04-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 64 total
Latest reviews · 64 analyzed
- 2026-03-06★★★★★Great plugin – it saves me so much timeellememe
- 2025-11-19★★★★★This plugin solved my problemiviaggidimichele
- 2025-11-10★★★★★Excellentheswartz
- 2025-09-11★★★★★Truly excellent support and high-functioning pluginsshandonc
- 2025-09-08★★★★★Fatal error: Couldn't work with it.mojer
- 2025-08-26★★★★★Fantastic!neotek9
- 2025-06-13★★★★★Works! But mistakes are too easy to make.sm_pomeroy
- 2025-04-25★★★★★Impressed with the courteous support.omoulightbox1-shot
- 2025-04-08★★★★★Perfect for my 6 a.m. fiveforks.com/Wordle updatesFishback
- 2025-03-15★★★★★Saves a lot of griefadamfort
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
278
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
114
Prior 7-day baseline
149
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
420
Mean release-day peak (30d)
347
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+143.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
21%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.44
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
80%
5★ share in analyzed sample
3%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-83%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.61 → 4.60★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered