PublishPress Planner vs Strive Content Calendar

PublishPress Planner helps teams plan, manage, and schedule content on WordPress sites. Its Content Calendar shows planned and published items, supports creating content, and lets users move an item to a new publication date by dragging it. The Content Overview groups work by status, category, or user and can produce a printable summary. A Content Board provides a column for each status and lets users move posts between stages. Teams can set editorial notification timing, recipients, and message details. The calendar exports schedules to Google Calendar and other iCal-compatible software, but changes made in external calendars do not sync back to WordPress. Planner Free costs nothing and includes the calendar, overview, board, notifications, and calendar export. Paid annual bundles start with Business at $129 a year, billed annually; Agency costs $299 a year, billed annually, and Unlimited costs $499 a year, billed annually. These bundles include PublishPress Pro plugins, including Planner Pro, which adds reminders, post metadata in notifications, removal of PublishPress branding and ads, and priority personal support.

Strive Content Calendar is a WordPress editorial system for planning, reviewing and maintaining articles. Its four-week Calendar view displays scheduled and unscheduled WordPress posts, while the Pipeline organizes work into Not Started, Writing, Editing and Complete. Reusable checklists let users track progress on each article. Local Editorial Readiness runs deterministic checks inside WordPress without AI, an external account or a usage quota. Pro adds private revisions of published articles, so the live version remains unchanged until republication; republishing does not change the URL or history. Pro AI features use the provider connected through WordPress, require WordPress 7.0 or later, and present proposed changes for inspection and approval. Approved writes are preceded by a WordPress revision. Pro can find internal-link opportunities in the site’s published article library, with approval required before insertion. Strive manages built-in WordPress Posts and articles, not Pages, products or custom post types. The package requires WordPress 6.5 or later and PHP 7.4 or later. Lite is free; Pro costs $9 a month.