If you have any multi-user WordPress site that you administer, this post is for you. I run one particular wordpress blog that has another user who writes stories as a contributor. When he is done, he presses “submit for review” and by default, he would have to email me and tell me that there was a new posting that I need to review and publish. This is a bit clunky and inconvenient for both of us. Someone created a solution to this problem however.
There is a plugin called “WP Status Notifier“. The name is not very intuitive to the function but it solves the exact problem I mentioned. After you install and configure it, whenever one of your contributors pushes the “submit for review” button, you(the administrator) will receive and email notifying you that there is a new block post pending review for you to publish.