When setting up a workflow, can steps be skipped if they aren’t needed?

Yes, you can setup a workflow in such a way where you can allow users to skip steps.

To do so, you need to get just a bit creative. Essentially, you can create multiple success/failure paths from one step to multiple steps.

Doing so, will allow the user to choose a specific step during task sign off.

For example, in the following workflow, when the post/page is on the “1st Level Review” step, the user can either choose to go to “2nd Level Review” OR skip this step and directly go to the “Publish” step.