New Module: Post-publication periodic review

[daniel-barrows]

I would like to add features to WordPress to facilitate periodic review of old posts and pages. What this review is checking will vary from site to site. In general, it's a way to ensure content is up-to-date and meets current site standards, character, etc. I may write my own plugin for this purpose, but wanted to propose it to y'all since I thought it would fit in well with your existing features.

Essential features:

1. New field for posts and pages: review-date
2. When content is published or schedule to be published, the review-date field is set to the current date
3. Add button to the Publish box of the Pages Add New Screen named "Mark as Reviewed" to change the review-date field to the current date
4. Add button to the Toolbar when viewing posts and pages named "Mark as Reviewed" to change the review-date field to the current date
5. A page in WordPress administration that can sort posts by the review-date field

Additional potential features:

6. Add a needs-revision field with boolean values, set to false by default on all posts and pages. This could be useful both to mark failed reviews and for pages rushed to publication that are still incomplete.
7. New user group named content-reviewers (It's probably fine to just give editors this, but some teams might want to have low-skilled team members checking pages.)

Optional additional features to enable via plugin preferences

8. When content is modified, prompt to ask if review-date should be updated.
9. Somehow remind users if any posts or pages have review-date older than a specified time period (eg. 1 year)