What are Project States?

Projects can be in 3 different states, depending on the status of your WordPress integration:

Content Project

This means that the project is just a content project and WordPress integration is disabled. This can either mean you never completed the WordPress integration, or disabled it from the project settings.

WordPress Connected

This means that the project is connected to WordPress and you can publish to your WordPress website directly from the platform. Bye bye sharing your WordPress admin credentials with part time or remote writers.

WordPress Disconnected

This means that the project's WordPress integration has been enabled for a project but the necessary steps have not been completed that will enable Contenteum to publish and draft articles on the website.

Activities and Types

Events or activities that have happened recently are shown here. Let’s see what each of the event means:

Article Created

This event is triggered when a team member creates an article.

Article Edited

This event is triggered when a team member edits an article.

Deadline Changed

This event is triggered when a team member changes the deadline of an article.( Oof!)

Priority Changed

This event is triggered when a team member changes the priority of an article.

Post Assigned

This event is triggered when an article is assigned to another team member.

Content Brief Generated

This event is triggered when a team member uses Contenteum’s editor to generate optimization suggestions for an article using a primary keyword and target country.

Publish To WordPress

This event is triggered when a team member publishes an article to WordPress from the Contenteum dashboard.

Draft To WordPress

This event is triggered when a team member sends the article to WordPress as a draft.

All the stages and activities keep your team neatly organized and updated no matter how fast things are moving.

What are the different article stages?

Article Created

This shows the number of articles in the “Article Created” Stage. When you or a team member first create an article, this stage is assigned automatically.

In Progress

This shows the number of articles in the “In Progress” Stage. Whenever you or a team member start writing an article, the stage of the article is automatically set to “In Progress”.

Awaiting Approval

This shows the number of articles in the “Awaiting Approval” Stage. Approvals help you organize your team structure so your in-house or remote writers can send an article for approval to the content manager or owner.

So, For instance, If John, the content writer, has been assigned an article and now requests approval for the same, until the time a manager or owner does not approve the article, the article stays in awaiting approval stage.

If Bob, the content manager, has a look at the article, but needs some revisions made, they can add a message to the approval request and request changes.

At this point, the article automatically changes it’s stage to “In progress”.

Published

This shows the number of articles in the “Published” Stage. Published stage is assigned when you have published an article to your connected WordPress website. Or if you use a custom CMS platform, a team member can also set this manually.

Article Approved

This shows the number of articles in the “Article Approved” Stage. If a writer requests approval and a manager or owner approves the content piece, the article stage is set to “Article Approved”.

Completed

This shows the number of articles in the “Completed” Stage. This is the only stage that needs to be set manually, because, hey, it’s not done till you say so. I know, if the technology existed, we would have pulled this off too!