tombenner

Front-End Users is a WordPress plugin that prevents specified user roles from accessing the WordPress admin section (the pages in /wp-admin/), sets up a profile editing page on the front-end, and allows for customization of front-end user-specific pages. This allows you to hide all of the WordPress back-end from specified roles (e.g. Subscribers) and instead present to them a profile editing page (and, optionally, other user-specific pages) that have the same layout as the rest of the site. The front-end functionality is available to all roles, but you can choose which roles are able to access the WordPress admin section (by default, only Administrators have access to it).
Front-End Users also makes it easy to:
<ul>
<li>Display user-specific links that depend on the login state (e.g. “Sign in | Register”, “John | Sign out”, “John | Dashboard | Sign out”)</li>
<li>Change the URL of the profile editing page and other user-specific pages</li>
<li>Add other user-specific pages and display a menu of all of some of these pages</li>
<li>Determine whether the current user has access to the admin section</li>
</ul>
The documentation for the hooks is in <a href="http://github.com/tombenner/front-end-users/blob/master/example_hooks.php" rel="nofollow ugc">example_hooks.php</a>, and the documentation for the functions is in <a href="http://github.com/tombenner/front-end-users/blob/master/functions.php" rel="nofollow ugc">functions.php</a>.
If the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-avatar/" rel="ugc">User Avatar plugin</a> is also installed, the avatar-editing functionality it provides will be shown on the front-end user settings page.
If you’d like to grab development releases, see what new features are being added, or browse the source code please visit the <a href="http://github.com/tombenner/front-end-users" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repo</a>.

Front-End Users

Hides the WordPress admin section from specified user roles, allows users to edit their settings from the front-end, and more.

Dominik Schilling

Share a link to anonymous users to preview a draft of a post (or any other public post type) before it is published.
Have you ever been writing a post with the help of someone who does not have access to your site and needed to give them the ability to preview it before publishing? This plugin takes care of that by generating an URL with an expiring nonce that can be given out for public preview.
Previously this plugin was maintained by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sivel/" rel="nofollow ugc">Matt Martz</a> and was an idea of <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jdingman/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jonathan Dingman</a>. Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/opened-book-on-grass-during-daytime-bhBONc07WsI" rel="nofollow ugc">Annelies Geneyn</a>.
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ul>
<li>To enable a public post preview check the box in the document settings. In the classic editor it’s in the “Publish” meta box.</li>
<li>The link will be displayed if the checkbox is checked, you can copy and share the link with your friends.</li>
<li>To disable a preview uncheck the box again.</li>
</ul>

Public Post Preview

This is one of the very few plugins I install on literally every single site I work on. Absolutely invaluable.

Must Install

This plugin has been very helpful in sharing articles for feedback before they are published. Straightforward and easy to use.  Thanks!

Works Great

This plugin does exactly what it needs to and nothing more. Very useful for previewing content before publication.

Very useful and simple plugin

A must have plugin

Allow anonymous users to preview a draft of a post before it is published.

Front-End Users vs Public Post Preview