If you own a website there are always “things to do” whether it’s big or small, one author or many, business or personal. Our WP Task Manager Plugin can help you organize and assign those tasks so they actually get done!
History: We work on WordPress websites every day both for clients and for ourselves. There are always things to be done, writing and editing content, SEO, maintenance, and more. Project management and Basecamp and all that is nice – but wouldn’t it be nice to just have your “to do” list within WordPress itself?
We found the WP Task Manager plugin a few years back and it seemed like a great way to manage and assign tasks. It had just about everything we needed – except for one key feature…
WP Task Manager Reloaded
The original version of WP Task Manager hasn’t been updated in 18 months. Also one key problem for us (and for clients) is that everyone sees ALL assigned tasks (not matter what kind of account they have). So we added a featured to make it better!
The image above (click for full view) shows the task screen. If you click “WP Task Manager” in the left sidebar of WP dashboard admin you’ll get that list. It shows all tasks, who their assigned to, and date. You’ll be able to edit, delete (red X), or mark as done (green checkmark). You can see at the top that you can view All tasks, Active tasks, or Done tasks. You can also click the comment icon to leave comments for each task.
When we started using this plugin with clients the immediate problem we had was that everyone could see all tasks. So we added a checkbox on the settings page with the option to “All roles EXCEPT admin view tasks ONLY assigned to them”. Now we can add all kinds of tasks, and our staff sees everything (as admin) but everyone else only sees tasks assigned to them.
Here are screens of the plugin setup options:
