PreviewShare

PreviewShare creates public preview links for WordPress drafts and other enabled content statuses. Reviewers can open the preview URL without a WordPress account, while editors keep control over expiration, labels, view counts, and revocation.

Yes. PreviewShare is designed for public preview links, private draft previews, client review links, and editorial approval workflows in WordPress.

Open the draft in the block editor or Classic Editor, enable public preview in the PreviewShare panel, and generate a preview link. You can copy the generated URL and send it to the client for review.

Users must be able to edit the content item before they can generate or revoke a preview link for it.

Yes. PreviewShare supports the block editor, Classic Editor, post list table actions, and the Preview dropdown.

Yes. You can set a global default expiration in Settings > PreviewShare and override it for individual content items in the editor panel. A value of 0 means no automatic expiration.

Yes. Disable public preview from the editor panel, revoke links from the Classic Editor panel, or revoke individual links from the PreviewShare settings screen.

Yes. PreviewShare supports multiple labeled preview links, so you can create separate links for client review, legal approval, editorial review, or team feedback.

PreviewShare adds robots directives to preview requests, including noindex and nofollow , and displays a preview banner on shared preview pages. Treat preview URLs as private links and share them only with intended reviewers.

PreviewShare stores token hashes and token metadata in wp_postmeta . Raw tokens are used in preview URLs but are not stored as plain text.

Expired tokens stop resolving to content. The editor panel will show the expired state and re-enabling preview sharing generates a fresh token.

Yes, if an editor enables reviewer responses for a specific preview link. Anyone with that link can approve, request changes, or leave a comment. Editors can require a name and email address, review the history, and resolve change requests. Revoking or expiring the link stops new responses.

PreviewShare marks an approval stale when saved post text, metadata, taxonomy terms, or featured-image details change. Content pulled from external services or other posts can change independently; editors should request a new response when that happens.

Responses, comments, and any name or email supplied by the reviewer are stored as private WordPress records. While PreviewShare is active, WordPress scheduled tasks remove records after 90 days. Deactivating or uninstalling PreviewShare stops that cleanup but preserves existing records in the site’s database; reactivating it resumes cleanup. The records are available through WordPress personal-data export and erasure tools when an email address was supplied and PreviewShare is active. Site owners should describe this behavior in their privacy notice and ensure WordPress scheduled tasks run reliably.

PreviewShare only exposes a specific content item to visitors who have a valid preview URL. Treat preview URLs like private sharing links and send them only to intended reviewers.