The content pipeline
Track topics across every stage of your content workflow on a drag-and-drop board.
The Pipeline is a board view of your brand's content once it's being written. It's organized into lanes, one per stage of the work. Each topic is a card, and you move a card to the next stage by dragging it.
The lanes
- Draft: being written. The Writer is generating, or a draft exists and is being edited.
- Review: awaiting review. The draft is ready for someone to read and approve.
- Ready to publish: approved.
- Pitching: contributed articles that are out with a publication, being pitched to one site at a time. This lane appears only when there's something in it.
- Published: live, or scheduled to go live. Scheduled pieces are shown first, soonest at the top, greyed out with a clock and their publish date. The lane header links to the Calendar, where you manage publish dates. A contributed article that another site has published carries an Earned tag.
The count badge on each lane header shows how many topics are in that stage.
New recommendations don't appear on the board. You review and approve them on Topic Recommendations, and approving one sends it into Draft.
Moving topics between stages
Drag a card and drop it onto another lane to move it on.
When you pick up a card, only the lanes it can move to are highlighted. If you drop a card onto a lane that isn't a valid next step, it snaps back to where it started and nothing changes.
Two moves ask for input before they complete:
- Requesting a revision: moving a topic back to Draft opens a dialog where you enter revision notes. The card stays put until you confirm.
- Scheduling: dropping an approved topic onto Published opens the schedule window, where you pick a publish date and CMS target. The card stays where it was until you confirm. Dragging a scheduled piece back to Ready to publish unschedules it.
A contributed article is never published on your own site, so it can't be dropped onto Published. You pitch it from its article page instead, and it moves into Pitching on its own.
A move shows immediately on the board and is then saved. If the save fails, the card returns to where it was and an error appears at the top of the page.
Adding topics
Add Your Own Topic at the top right opens a form to create a topic, or to import several from a CSV. New topics go to Topic Recommendations for approval, and the board tells you when one has been added there.
To have GEOforge suggest topics, including pitch topics for contributed articles, use Generate on the Recommendations page.
Search and filters
Use the search box to filter cards by topic title, and the format dropdown to show only one type (Blog, FAQ, Case Study, How-To, or Commercial Page). The dropdown lists every format, including any your brand has switched off, so topics you already have stay findable. Filters apply across all lanes at once.
The summary line under the action bar tells you how many topics match your filters out of the total on the board.
"+N more"
Each lane shows a limited number of cards. When a stage holds more topics than fit, +N more appears at the bottom of the lane with the number not shown.
When a search or format filter is active, the board only filters the cards already loaded into each lane, and the "+N more" note is hidden.
Deleting a topic
Delete a topic from its card. If the topic has been published to a connected CMS, you can choose whether to also remove the published post, or delete only the GEOforge record and leave the live page in place.
If you'd rather work through topics as a ranked list than a board, use Topic Recommendations. To manage publish dates for scheduled topics, use the Content Calendar.