Run an article release checklist before daily publication

Freeze the candidate

Identify the exact files and revision under review. A checklist is unreliable if the draft or asset can change unnoticed while checks are running.

Check visible article facts

Confirm title, publication date, author or publisher identity, reading context, source list, limitations, and the approved close.

For a related control, see Build a content request scorecard for outsourced daily articles. The U.S. Small Business Administration management guide provides broader operating context.

Check page metadata

Validate description, canonical URL, article dates, social metadata, structured data, and sitemap inclusion against the same route.

Check every navigation path

Open internal and external body links, related cards, index entries, image sources, and the contact action. Distinguish a temporary network failure from a bad destination.

Build before release

Run the repository build and targeted validators. Treat warnings that affect rendering, indexing, or content integrity as release problems.

Continue with Use version control for outsourced small-business article briefs when the workflow reaches review.

Record evidence

The manifest should name routes, source files, assets, validation results, commit, and release time without storing credentials.

Require a clean disposition

Publish only when every mandatory check passes or a named owner explicitly resolves the exception. A queued deploy is not a live article.

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