One very helpful tool to use when creating content is an editorial calendar. You can create a simple calendar or you can use one of the many readily available plug-ins for your content management system to identify and create content as well as plan for its release.
| Name | Website | About |
|---|---|---|
| Stress Limit Design Editorial Calendar | http://stresslimitdesign.com/ | The simply named, Editorial Calendar plugin is one of the most popular ones, for good reason. Its no frills, but has what a single blogger blog needs to keep up with posts and is what I use on my personal business blog. Posts can be easily moved around from one date to the next, and you can, at a glance, see which days you have posts planned for, and whether they are in draft mode, scheduled, or published. |
| Edit Flow | http://editflow.org | Edit Flow is one of the best free WordPress editorial calendar plugins for multi-author blogs. Features such as editorial comments, notifications, custom status, and user groups them make it easy for a blog owner or manager to collaborate with other team members. |
| CoSchedule | http://coschedule.com/ | CoSchedule is a premium, WordPress editorial calendar plugin that runs $10 per month. As is to be expected, it has more bells and whistles than the two free plugins written about above. The thing that makes this plugin different from the others is that in addition to being able to leave notes for other team members, you can actually add tasks to each post and assign them to team members. The tasks can be anything you want them to be, so they can ran the gamut from research to creating images to anything else not necessarily specific to the actual writing and editing of the post. |
| Kapost | http://kapost.com/ | Kapost offers a visually interactive editorial calendar. The biggest plus point with this is, it leaves you with an opportunity to view the calendar as par your convenience. It offers an extensive list of filters so that you can choose from them according to your requirements and get a custom view. |
| Betaout ContentCloud | http://www.betaout.com | Betaout ContentClouds content collaboration suit combines with a powerful editorial calendar. You dont need to install a separate calendar plugin for this. It offers a complete overview of a months plan for your publication, and you can also plan for the coming months too. In fact, it leaves you with the scope to create an editorial calendar for the whole year here. |
| Basecamp | https://basecamp.com | Bsecamp has a nice editorial calendar module. Its easy to use and accommodates all kind of content including images, videos and texts. This makes it convenient for the bloggers to save ideas in any form and also gather properties as per their availabilities. It also allows the bloggers to set to do list, it also lets the blogger set milestones to keep a control on deadlines. |
| HubSpot Editorial Calendar | http://www.hubspot.com/ | If youre just starting to warm up to the idea of using editorial calendar tools in the first place, HubSpots free template might be the right starting place. Many basic fields, including type of content, keywords, and dates are already completed for users, so you can simply plug in your ideas and get to work. However, due to the fact this is an Excel Spreadsheet, it can be challenging to scale as your team expands and plans change mid-month. |
| DivvyHQ | http://divvyhq.com/ | If your companys content marketing efforts have grown so exponentially youre struggling to keep up, DivvyHQ might be exactly what you need. Designed specifically for high volume companies, like their current customers Toyota and Sprint, this softwares editorial calendar features include a simple dashboard of tasks that need to be accomplished, an unlimited number of shared calendars, and workflow management. |
| Content DJ | http://www.contentdj.com/ | This all-in-one marketing solution boasts that its the only editorial calendar tool built for the social media age. ContentDJ certainly bridges the content marketing lifecycle exceptionally well, and users can track and plan original content, optimize social media posts, and source content for curation from the dashboard effortlessly. |
| Widget Logic | http://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/ | This plugin gives every widget an extra control field called “Widget logic” that lets you control the pages that the widget will appear on. The text field lets you use WP’s Conditional Tags, or any general PHP code. PLEASE NOTE The widget logic you introduce is EVAL’d directly. Anyone who has access to edit widget appearance will have the right to add any code, including malicious and possibly destructive functions. |
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