editant

<p>Editant is a content review and approval plugin for WordPress. Generate a secure preview link for any post, page, or custom post type and share it with reviewers – clients, stakeholders, internal teams, regulators – who can read the rendered content, leave threaded feedback, and approve or request changes. No WordPress login required for reviewers.</p>
<p>Everything runs on your own WordPress instance. There is no SaaS backend, no per-seat fee, and no reviewer data leaves your server.</p>
<h4>What’s included</h4>
<ul>
<li>Tokenised preview links for any public post type, with configurable expiry and one-click revocation.</li>
<li>Login-free reviewer access via secure 256-bit tokens, stored hashed.</li>
<li>Threaded comments – reviewers and authors can reply within threads.</li>
<li>Optional reviewer identity capture: anonymous, name only, or name plus email.</li>
<li>Block editor sidebar showing live comment threads alongside the content you’re editing, with auto-refresh and manual refresh.</li>
<li>Admin dashboard listing every active link with reviewer counts, decisions, and last activity.</li>
<li>Approve and Request Changes decisions, recorded with full history.</li>
<li>Email notifications for new comments, replies, and decisions.</li>
<li>Configurable defaults for new links, email sender, and rate limits via the Settings page.</li>
<li>Custom post type support out of the box.</li>
<li>Full RTL language support across reviewer page, sidebar, and dashboard.</li>
<li>Translation-ready, with a <code>.pot</code> file shipped.</li>
<li>GDPR data exporter and eraser hooked into WordPress core privacy tools.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Coming next (Pro)</h4>
<p>Editant Pro will add inline (text-anchored) commenting, tracked-changes-style suggestions, multi-reviewer quorum approvals, signed audit trails, deadlines and reminders, per-link access control (passwords, IP allow-lists, view-once links), white-labelling and branding for the reviewer page, and AI-assisted review features using your own provider keys.</p>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
<p>Editant stores reviewer comments and decisions in your own database. IP addresses and user agents are hashed with a per-site salt before storage. No data is sent to any external service from the free plugin. AI features (Pro) require you to bring your own provider key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, or local models via Ollama) – Editant never proxies AI calls.</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>Editant is open source under the GPL. The full source for the admin and reviewer interfaces (React/JSX and SCSS) ships in this plugin under <code>assets/src/</code>. Running the build below produces the files in <code>assets/build/</code> that ship with the plugin.</p>
<p>To rebuild from source:</p>
<ol>
<li>Install Node.js 22 or later and PHP 8.1 or later.</li>
<li>From the plugin directory, run <code>composer install</code> and <code>npm install</code>.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm run build</code>.</li>
</ol>
<p>Configuration files included in the plugin: <code>webpack.config.js</code>, <code>package.json</code>, <code>composer.json</code>. Third-party dependencies are declared in <code>package.json</code> (JavaScript) and <code>composer.json</code> (PHP). The build pipeline uses <code>@wordpress/scripts</code>.</p>


Editant

Share unpublished WordPress content with reviewers via secure links. Threaded comments, approval decisions, full audit, no logins required.

pianoweb

<p><strong>Simple Post Preview & Review</strong> is the complete solution for client content review and approval workflows. Share unpublished content with clients, collect feedback and approvals, receive client edits, and manage the entire review process – all without giving clients access to your WordPress admin area.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Secure Preview Links</strong>: Generate cryptographically secure, unique preview links for any post, page, or custom post type</li>
<li><strong>No WordPress Login Required</strong>: Clients can review content and provide feedback without creating an account</li>
<li><strong>Review & Approval System</strong>: Built-in feedback mechanism with approve/request changes options</li>
<li><strong>Client Editing</strong>: Clients can submit edited versions of title and content for your review</li>
<li><strong>Approval Workflow</strong>: Review client edits with side-by-side diff view before applying changes</li>
<li><strong>Feedback History</strong>: Track all reviews, approvals, and decisions with timestamps</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Data Cleanup</strong>: Schedule automatic cleanup of old data or manually clean as needed</li>
<li><strong>Rate Limiting</strong>: Protect against spam with configurable rate limits</li>
<li><strong>Security First</strong>: Links are hashed in the database, include noindex/nofollow headers, and are non-cacheable</li>
<li><strong>Privacy Conscious</strong>: Minimal fingerprinting for rate limiting</li>
<li><strong>Easy to Use</strong>: Simple metabox in the post editor with one-click link generation</li>
<li><strong>Dashboard Overview</strong>: Centralized view of all active preview links and their approval status</li>
<li><strong>Customizable</strong>: Configure which post types support preview links</li>
<li><strong>Developer Friendly</strong>: Clean, documented code following WordPress coding standards</li>
</ul>
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li>Agencies sharing work with clients for approval</li>
<li>Publishers getting editorial feedback</li>
<li>Content teams collaborating with external reviewers</li>
<li>Anyone who needs to share unpublished content securely</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Edit any post, page, or custom post type</li>
<li>Click “Generate Preview Link” in the Simple Post Preview metabox</li>
<li>Copy and share the secure link with your reviewer</li>
<li>They can view the content and provide feedback without logging in</li>
<li>See all feedback and approval status directly in the WordPress editor</li>
</ol>
<h4>Security Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Tokens are hashed using SHA-256 before storage</li>
<li>High-entropy random token generation (64 characters)</li>
<li>Preview pages include X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow</li>
<li>Cache-Control headers prevent caching of preview content</li>
<li>Rate limiting prevents abuse</li>
<li>Easy token revocation/regeneration</li>
</ul>
<h4>Coming Soon (Premium)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Approval gates (block publication until approved)</li>
<li>Multiple reviewers with approval rules</li>
<li>Email notifications</li>
<li>Link expiration</li>
<li>Editing/suggestions from reviewers</li>
<li>Watermarks</li>
<li>Slack/Teams integrations</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>Simple Post Preview & Review is designed with privacy in mind:</p>
<ul>
<li>No personal data is collected from reviewers</li>
<li>A non-identifying fingerprint (hash) is used for rate limiting only</li>
<li>No tracking cookies are used</li>
<li>No data is sent to external services</li>
<li>All data stays on your WordPress installation</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-post-preview-review/" rel="ugc">WordPress.org support forums</a>.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Developed with ❤️ for the WordPress community.</p>


Simple Post Preview & Review

Share secure preview links, collect client feedback and approvals, receive edits - all without WordPress login.

Editant vs Simple Post Preview & Review