 managing content moderation workflows what is a content moderation workflow  on some sites new content and content revisions need to be moderated  that is they need to pass through several states before becoming visible to site visitors the collection of states and the definition of the transitions between states is known as a workflow  for example new content might start out in a draft state and then might need to pass through several review states before it becomes published on the live site the core software allows you to configure workflows in which each transition has an associated permission that can be granted to a particular role see missing help topic contentmoderationconfiguringworkflows for more information users with sufficient permissions can change the workflow state of a particular entity see missing help topic contentmoderationchangingstates for more information overview of content moderation workflows the core content moderation module allows you to expand on core software s unpublished and published states for content it allows you to have a published version that is live but have a separate working copy that is undergoing review before it is published this is achieved by using workflows to apply different states and transitions to entities as needed the core workflows module allows you to manage workflows with states and transitions see the related topics listed below for specific tasks and background information additional resources online documentation about content moderation 