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Pre and post publishing checklist

Birgit Pauli-Haack edited this page Jan 14, 2025 · 5 revisions

Checklists After the 2nd review you can also share the Pre-and post publishing checklist in a comment, the master list can be taken from the issue Pre and post publish checklist #19

Pre-publishing checklist: (updated 1/29/2024)

  • Post Title and subheaders in sentence case
  • Are Category or Categories selected?
  • Are Tags identifies?
  • Is there an explicit Excerpt?
  • Are all images files uploaded to the media library
  • Do all images have an alt-text?unchecked For TOC us the Pattern under Developer Blog > Table of contents
  • Assign or upload a featured image
  • Props added? (See Guidelines)
  • add copy for a social post as comment to this issue (example)
  • Save in draft, with Public Post preview enabled.

Post-publishing checklist

  • add Props for reviews to #props channel in WP Slack (Example) (use Slack handle
  • Add the label “post to social” to the issue
  • close the issue with a comment to link to the published post
  • close the accompanying discussion with the link to the published post.

Automation.

The checklist will be automatically added to an issue, once it is labeled "flow-ready to publish"

Screenshot 2025-01-14 at 11 32 13 The code can be found here (add-publish-check.yml in .github/workflows)