There are thousands of CMSes available in the market today and tens of thousands of people are making use of these CMSes. The big and powerful CMS vendors provide such CMSes that are loaded with all the features and functions needed to set up a completely customized web site for content publishers of any level.

Not only this, these CMS vendors may also provide you with web solutions and help you maintain your information in an efficient manner. But as they say, nothing in life worth having comes easy; in the similar manner one should always be ready to pay a heavy price for all these uninterrupted services. The CMS vendors make sure that they answer all your queries and provide feedback on regular basis. They would answer all your questions except for the one that can these services be made available at reasonable or no price at all?

Now you can get all the services provided by the CMS vendors at WordPress and that too with a minimal charge. WordPress an open source, user friendly interface is free with a very reasonable hosting.

WordPress is nestled with thousands of handy plugins which help you to customize your web site the way you want to. Not only that you can give the web site your desired look and even customize it the way you want to and you don’t even require writing any code for that. And if you find yourself struggling through any section of WordPress and want your way out, then you can help yourself without any professional assistance by making use of the desired WordPress plugins. Below mentioned is a list of five such plugins that CMS vendors would never want their customers to know about.

1. ContentCloud

ContentCloud developed by Betaout is a SaaS (Software as a Service) based editorial workflow system for WordPress publishers. ContentCloud offers a platform that excels in providing a collaborative approach to content creation in WordPress.

Through ContentCloud assignments can be routed across multiple content contributors like writers, multimedia, copy editors before being published. Team members are also authorized to send assignments back for revision to previous desk whenever required. Every user is assigned a desk based on his user role. The desks can be arranged in an ordered workflow to ensure smooth flow of assignment through each desk in a desired manner. The entire content production is streamlined through the flexible assignment creation, robust workflow management, task delegation, resource sharing and complete control of editors.

ContentCloud offers a very impressive user interface with a modern application look and feel. ContentCloud provides two different Apps for managing editors and other staff members namely, the Newsroom App and Workbench App respectively.































2. Edit Flow

Edit flow is one of the most useful and convenient plugin to have in your WordPress armory especially for blogs or websites based on WordPress publishing platform having multiple authors and editorial teams managing the content. The Edit flow plugin helps in redefining the editorial workflow by allowing mutual collaboration of the editorial team within the WordPress platform. Edit flow not only redefines the editorial workflow by allowing mutual collaboration of the editorial team within the WordPress platform but also allows for in house discussions through threaded comments in the administration section between various writers and editors. The Plugin is a boom for teams with editors working on different timings as its calendar feature helps synchronizing the mutual content in an effective manner.

The plugin allows automatic notifications and makes sure the communication channel between different members is not subjected to any delays or lack of communication. With all its powerful editorial support features, Edit flow plugin has been developed as a highly customized plugin allowing administrators the power to pick and choose to enable the desired functionality as desired in accordance with the users, publishers and the editorial team of the website. Edit Flow plugin not only keeps the WordPress approval workflow together but is quick and easy to install.








3. Revisionary

Revisionary is one of finest WordPress plugin that enables editing of published content in a moderated environment by specific users under the supervision of an editor thereby easing the editing burden of the editors while allowing for a better synchronized workflow mechanism process between the editorial team. Editing or revising content is an eccentric process of any multiple authored website with various checks and balances in place but revisionary plugin take the concept of revision to a even higher level allowing a level playing field between editors and chosen users. Not only does revisionary plugin allows qualified or more experienced users the options to revise and edit the submitted content, the plugin also enables contributors to revise and edit the content submitted by them thereby reducing workflow pressures and increase productivity allowing a sense of pro activeness in the whole submission and publication workflow process of the website. The changes are published immediately when approved by an editor and can also be scheduled for future publication. Scheduling revisions allows administrators to specify and bookmark future changes to published content using Pending Revision approval tool or directly sending content specific suggestions to any fully authorized author or editor to evaluate and published the desired changes in the content.




















4. Role Scoper

It is always problematic to handle huge numbers of users registered to a single blog. Role Scoper is WordPress plugin precise designed to simplify this problem. WordPress has its own core role model that defines the level of moderation right to a site of blog. Although this core role structure does not offers a valid solution over the problem of managing multiple editorial authors. This why I trusted on this plugin for my News Blog and definitely found it much more effective than any other plugins. This plugin allows the webmasters or admin to assign the role of each and every registered user under a blog. They can grant several authorities like editing, posing etc. They can also autonomously post their articles to blog. Role Scoper plugin make the whole process very easy than usual situation. Some of the user can be granted only posting permission but they cannot delete or change any previously submitted post. On the other side some of the selective use can be granted with editorial permission which makes them capable to editing various posts over the blogs. It also provides a wide range of category control and APIs to write different application.








































5. User Permissions

User Permission is a WordPress plugin that allows controlling core User Role of WordPress framework without any complicated interface like other available user control add-on. This add on simply upgrade the basic core user permission settings without hampering the actually framework system. It allows the webmasters to modify the permission for any registered user. They can be assigned any specific types of permission and authority or multiple permissions for role like editor or moderators etc. It adds a special control panel in the usual WordPress dashboard without spoiling the main interface.

The system is completely localized thus it reduces the network bandwidth usage by a very marginal rate. The system not only controls user’s permission to change or edit sometime it can be also used for reading purposes. That means website or blog owner can easily hide some of their posts from some specific user or user-group. These particular features serve me a lot while I was trying to figure out a way to communicate with my moderators and writer without making a global post. So I was able to completely configure some of the administrative posted restricted to writers and moderator only, thus other normal users were unable view those posts.

Author Bio:
This is a guest post by Alia Haley. She is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on technology and luxury. Beside this she is fond of cell phones. These days she is busy in writing an article on Luxury yacht and Burberry Handbags.