Final review and the Approver role

An approved article does not go straight to publication. It goes to a final reviewer, which is where a second pair of eyes reads it before it appears on your site.

Assigning one

Assign final reviewers is the queue, described as "Choose who gives each approved guest post its final review before publication."

Each row shows the article, its author, when it was approved, its version, the link and domain counts, its status, who it is assigned to and when.

An Assignment status filter covers ready to assign, assigned, in approver review, approver approved and changes requested.

Only active Approvers in your workspace can be chosen, and the form says so. Giving somebody the Approver role is done in people and roles.

Reassigning

You can change who an article is assigned to, and the form asks for a note of at least ten characters when you do.

The note is internal routing context for the incoming Approver, and the history of who had it is preserved rather than overwritten.

What the Approver sees

My Reviews is their queue: "Review only article packages assigned to you."

They get the same immutable package the first reviewer had: the article, its links, the domain figures, and the review history including the approval that got it this far.

They cannot see articles assigned to somebody else.

What they decide

Approve, which moves the article on towards publication.

Request changes, which sends it back with an author-visible note.

Either way the note is written for the author. The screen is explicit about the limits of the channel: "The Author will see this workflow note. Direct messaging is not enabled."

A note of at least ten characters is required for a change request, and an approval can carry an optional one.

Whether you need this step at all

On a one-person site, probably not. You reviewed it, you approved it, you publish it.

It earns its place when the person who decides what to publish is not the person who decides whether it is good enough, which is most teams past about three people. It also earns it when the first reviewer is close to the author, because a second read from somebody who has not been in the conversation catches different things.

Where to go next

Publishing and the live check is what happens once the last review is done.