WordPress is one of the most popular and widely used platforms for blogging or powering websites. It is being used by more than 16.7% of Alexa Internet’s ‘top 1 million’ websites and manages more than 22% of all new websites nowadays! It was launched in 2003 and has continued to grow ever since. The reason for its huge success is the fact that it is extremely easy to use and boasts some really cool features such as plugins etc.

Plugins can help you ameliorate or even add certain features to WordPress, and your website. They let you enhance the usability of your WordPress and make your life a lot easier. Plugins are the magic want and are the answer to all your needs and problems.

We present to you a list of 6 Awesome WordPress Post Scheduling & Management Plugins. These plugins will specifically help in improving the post scheduling and management features of WordPress. The best part is that all these plugins are free of cost! So check them out and pick the ones you like the best!

Here are the Post Scheduling & Management Plugins:

WP Document Revisions

As the name suggests, WP Document Revisions offer s a document-managing system allows working together of teams and editing files, posts and pages together. Team members are provided the ability of editing spreadsheets, Word documents and photos etc. You can even submit the details of how documents have been revised, and you can also restore older revisions whenever you want. Making projects private or password-protected is also possible. It is a really useful plugin for teams.

Editorial Calendar

Editorial Calendar is a really cool plugin that lets you manage the scheduling of your posts easily and quickly. As the name suggests, it adds a calendar page to the admin area. This calendar will display the posts scheduled for every single day and multiple posts are displayed chronologically.

This plugin allows changing titles, publishing times or status of posts, easily and quickly. Editing the content of the posts is also possible from the ‘quick edit’ option. If you are one of those people who schedule a lot of posts in advance then this plugin will prove to be a blessing for you!

Edit Flow

Edit Flow is an awesome plugin with a plethora of features.  It boasts a calendar that lets you schedule your posts and even allows adding custom statuses for defining the stage a post or page. It also lets authors and editors to communicate with each other; and makes adding editorial meta data and notifications to tell authors and editors about the status of a post or page possible. On the whole it is a very nice plugin which will enable you to manage your staff in a better way, thus improving the overall productivity.

Peter’s Collaboration E-mails

This is an incredible collaboration plugin that lets you manage the editorial flow of posts in a hassle-free way. This plugin notifies the specific user via email whenever a contributor submits a new post for reviewing. After the post has been reviewed and approved, it notifies the contributor via email that his/her post has been accepted. But if post gets back to “Draft” status then the contributor is notified that it has not been accepted and needs to be improved/edited and a link to edit the article is sent a along with this email. It is a really helpful plugin which makes collaboration between two parties extremely easy.

Content Audit

This one is a great plugin that allows easy reviewing of old content to decide if it is still useful or not. It works with posts, pages and media. Setting older content as outdated after a given period of time and notifying authors about it is also possible. You have the ability of marking the content as redundant, outdated or trivial or marking it as requiring reviewing of SEO or style.

Peter’s Post Notes 

As you might have already guessed, this plugin is from the same developer as ‘Peter’s Collaboration E-mails’. It allows the authors to collaborate with each other on posts as it adds a note area close to “Publish” box on the editing pages for posts and pages so that other people can easily read the important note left by you.