BreakUI Preview Pass lets you send a client a private link to a draft page. They open it in their browser, with no WordPress account and no staging site, and see the page exactly as it will look when it goes live: your theme, your page builder layout, your fonts. When they’re done, they can approve
PricingFree downloadThe WordPress.org download is free. Pro versions, add-ons or external services may cost extra.
CompatibilityRequires WordPress 6.2 and PHP 7.4.
SourceWordPress plugins · Oct 27, 2026
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Aboutthistool.
BreakUI Preview Pass lets you send a client a private link to a draft page. They open it in their browser, with no WordPress account and no staging site, and see the page exactly as it will look when it goes live: your theme, your page builder layout, your fonts.
When they’re done, they can approve the page or request changes. They can even click the exact heading, button or image they mean, and you get a screenshot of it with the spot marked.
Every feature is free. There is no Pro version and nothing to unlock.
Plugin homepage
Private preview links
Create a link from the page editor sidebar, the Pages list, or the BreakUI Preview Pass dashboard
Works with drafts, pending, scheduled and private posts
Links expire automatically after 1 hour, 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days or 30 days, or never
Revoke any link instantly
Optional password for each link, with a limit on wrong attempts
View counts and last viewed time (your own team’s visits are not counted)
A small “Private preview” badge shows the client when the link expires
Clean pages for expired, revoked or wrong links
Client approval
An “Is this page ready?” bar on the preview with Approve Page and Request Changes
Review status in the editor and the dashboard: Awaiting review, Approved or Changes requested
Email alerts when a client approves or sends feedback, with Reply-To set to the client’s email
Point-and-click feedback
Clients click “Point to the area on the page” and then click or tap any element
The element is highlighted and labelled while they choose, for example Heading, Button or Image
Links and buttons don’t navigate while picking, so clients can’t wander off
Each request records the element, its text, the device, browser, operating system and screen size
A screenshot of that part of the page is saved with the element outlined and the click point marked
Numbered pins show where feedback was left
Works on phones and tablets
Tablet and phone review
Clients press Tablet or Phone to see the page at 768 or 390 pixels wide, right inside the preview
Notes left there are saved with the screen size, so you know a problem only happens on phones
Reply threads
Reply to any note from the Feedback screen, and optionally email the client
Clients see your replies on the pin and can answer back, with no login
Every reply is shown in one thread under the note
Approval history
A timeline of who approved or asked for changes, with their email, date, device and the page version they saw
Links to the WordPress revision that was approved
A warning when you edit a page after the client approved it
Your brand, not ours
Pick the button colours, the logo (your site logo or any image), the badge title and the name your clients see
Change every client-facing text on the password screen and the review toolbar
White label: use your own plugin name and icon in the WordPress dashboard, and hide “Secured by BreakUI Preview Pass” and the Preview Pass mark from clients
Feedback dashboard
Every request in one place, with screenshots, filters for open and resolved, and a filter per page
Show on Page opens the preview, scrolls to the element and highlights it
Mark requests as resolved, reopen them, or delete them
Built for page builders
Pages are rendered through the normal WordPress front end, so layouts from the block editor, Breakdance, Bricks, Elementor and other builders look exactly as they will when published. For builders that edit outside the WordPress editor, use the “Preview link” action in the Pages list.
Safe by default
Links use long random tokens. Only a hash and an encrypted copy are stored, keyed to your site’s salts.
A link opens one page, read-only. It gives no access to the dashboard, the REST API or the media library.
Previews are never cached. BreakUI Preview Pass sends no-cache headers and supports WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache and other caching plugins.
Previews are kept out of search engines with noindex headers, and canonical tags are removed.
Password-protected links stay protected even if the plugin’s settings change.
Privacy
BreakUI Preview Pass adds suggested text to your Privacy Policy page and works with the WordPress “Export Personal Data” and “Erase Personal Data” tools. See the Privacy section below for exactly what is stored.
Made by BreakUI
BreakUI Preview Pass is built and maintained by BreakUI , a website template studio run by WordPress developer MD Moniruzzaman Monir. We build client sites every day, and this is the tool we wanted for sharing drafts with clients: no staging site, no client accounts, no back-and-forth over screenshots.
Questions or ideas? Use the support forum on WordPress.org.
Privacy
BreakUI Preview Pass does not send any data to external services.
When a client approves a page or requests changes, BreakUI Preview Pass stores the name they enter, their email address (optional), their message and the date. If they point at part of the page, it also stores which element they selected, their device type, browser, operating system and screen size, and a screenshot of that part of the page. IP addresses are not stored with feedback.
Replies to feedback store the name, email (optional), message and date of the person replying. The page version (last saved date and revision ID) is stored with each approval or change request so you can see what was approved.
For password-protected links, a cookie named previewpass_{id} remembers that the client entered the password. It expires when the link expires. The client’s name and email are remembered in their browser’s local storage to fill in the feedback form next time.
Third-party libraries
BreakUI Preview Pass includes html2canvas 1.4.1 by Niklas von Hertzen (MIT license) to create feedback screenshots in the visitor’s browser. The file is assets/vendor/html2canvas.min.js . The unminified source code is available at https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas/tree/v1.4.1
The admin screens use two bundled fonts, both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1: Bricolage Grotesque ( assets/fonts/bricolage-grotesque-700.woff2 ) and Geist ( assets/fonts/geist-variable.woff2 ). Their licenses are next to the font files.
Developers
BreakUI Preview Pass has actions and filters for most of what it does. Some examples:
previewpass_expiry_options to change the expiry choices
previewpass_single_link_per_post to allow more than one active link per page
previewpass_review_recipients to change who gets feedback emails
previewpass_show_review_bar and previewpass_show_feedback_pins to control what clients see
previewpass_notice_messages and previewpass_notice_credit to change the text on expired-link pages
previewpass_review_submitted , previewpass_link_created and previewpass_link_viewed actions for your own integrations
Themes can override the client-facing templates by copying them from the plugin’s templates folder to yourtheme/previewpass/ .
See it in action
Screenshots & previews.
Step 1: Open any draft and use the Private Preview box. Pick how long the link works and whether it needs a password.Step 2: Your link is ready. Copy the link and password together, or email them to your client in one click.Step 3: Your client opens the link. If you added a password, they type it once. No account or login needed.Step 4: The client sees the page as it will look live, with a small toolbar to approve it, request changes, or check it on tablet and phone.Step 5: To request a change, the client clicks the exact part of the page and writes a note. A screenshot is attached for you.Step 6: Tablet and phone review. The client checks the page at phone size and leaves notes there. Each note keeps the screen size.Step 7: Reply threads. Your replies show on the pin, and the client can answer back right on the page.Step 8: The Preview Links dashboard shows every link, its review status, views and time left. Extend, revoke or publish from here.Step 9: Feedback is grouped by page, with screenshots, reply threads and the approval history.Settings: choose the button colours, logo and text your client sees, with a live preview.White label: use your own plugin name and icon in the dashboard, and hide BreakUI branding from clients.Settings: the Danger zone lets you revoke all links, delete all feedback, reset settings or export feedback as CSV.
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Gettingstarted.
01In your dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New Plugin and search for “BreakUI Preview Pass”, or upload the plugin zip.
02Activate BreakUI Preview Pass.
03Open any draft page. In the Private Preview box in the sidebar, choose how long the link should last and click Create Preview Link .
04Copy the link and send it to your client.
You can change the link path, the default expiry, which post types are available and what clients see under BreakUI Preview Pass > Settings .
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Frequently asked questions.
Does my client need a WordPress account?
No. Anyone with the link can view that one page until the link expires or you revoke it. Add a password if you want an extra layer of protection.
Does the preview show unsaved changes?
No. The preview shows the latest saved version of the page. Save your draft before sending the link.
Does it work with my page builder?
BreakUI Preview Pass uses normal WordPress front-end rendering, so it works with the block editor and page builders such as Breakdance, Bricks and Elementor. If your builder edits outside the WordPress editor, create links from BreakUI Preview Pass > Preview Links or from the “Preview link” action in the Pages list.
The link shows a “not found” page
Go to Settings > Permalinks and click Save Changes to rebuild the rewrite rules. This can be needed after moving a site.
Can a client share the link with someone else?
Yes, anyone with the link can open it. That’s why links expire and can be revoked. For sensitive work, add a password and use a short expiry.
Why is a screenshot missing or slightly different from the page?
Screenshots are drawn from the page’s HTML in the client’s browser. Some effects, such as certain animations or images loaded from other websites, may look different or be missing. If a screenshot can’t be made, the feedback is still sent without it.
I changed the salts in wp-config.php and my links stopped working
That’s expected. Links are keyed to your site’s salts, so changing the salts revokes every link.
Where are screenshots stored?
In wp-content/uploads/previewpass/ , with random file names. They are deleted when you delete the feedback, the page, or the plugin itself with the “Delete all links, feedback, screenshots and settings” option turned on under Settings.
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