Mehul Gohil

<p>PreviewShare is a secure public preview plugin for WordPress. It helps editors share draft posts, pending pages, scheduled content, private posts, and other enabled public post types through controlled preview links without publishing early or creating temporary reviewer accounts.</p>
<p>Use PreviewShare when a client, legal reviewer, teammate, editor, or stakeholder needs to review WordPress content before it goes live. Each preview URL uses a random token, can expire automatically, can be revoked, and is designed for private review workflows such as client approval, content approval, editorial review, and scheduled campaign checks.</p>
<p>PreviewShare stores token hashes instead of plain-text tokens, adds noindex/nofollow robots directives to shared previews, and shows a clear preview banner on private preview pages.</p>
<h4>Common use cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Share a WordPress draft post with a client before publishing.</li>
<li>Send a private preview link for a pending page, scheduled campaign, or unpublished landing page.</li>
<li>Let stakeholders review content without giving them a WordPress login.</li>
<li>Create separate labeled preview links for legal review, client review, editorial review, or team approval.</li>
<li>Revoke access after feedback is complete or when a preview link should no longer work.</li>
<li>Keep search engines from indexing private preview URLs with robots directives.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Generate secure public preview links from the block editor, Classic Editor, post list table, or Preview dropdown.</li>
<li>Share pretty URLs such as <code>https://example.com/preview/exampletoken</code>.</li>
<li>Set a default expiration time for preview links from the PreviewShare settings screen.</li>
<li>Override the expiration time per post or page.</li>
<li>Create multiple labeled preview links for different reviewers.</li>
<li>Revoke preview access when a link should stop working.</li>
<li>View and manage preview link status, expiry, labels, and view counts from the settings screen.</li>
<li>Choose which public post types support public preview sharing.</li>
<li>Keep token lookup fast with optional object cache support.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How PreviewShare protects preview links</h4>
<p>PreviewShare is built for private review, not public publishing. It uses random preview tokens, stores token hashes in WordPress post meta, supports automatic expiration, supports manual revocation, and sends <code>noindex</code>, <code>nofollow</code>, <code>noarchive</code>, <code>nosnippet</code>, and <code>noimageindex</code> directives for preview requests.</p>
<p>Anyone with a valid preview URL can open that preview, so links should still be shared only with intended reviewers.</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>The public source repository is available at https://github.com/mehul0810/previewshare.</p>
<p>Production ZIP files are built from the source repository with:</p>
<pre><code>npm install
npm run plugin-zip
</code></pre>
<p>The release artifact includes compiled assets, Composer autoload files, <code>composer.json</code>, plugin PHP, languages, readme, and license files. Development files such as <code>node_modules</code>, source assets, CI configuration, tests, and build tooling are excluded from production ZIP files.</p>


PreviewShare

Create secure public preview links for WordPress drafts, scheduled posts, and client reviews without user accounts.

tidyplugins

<p><strong>Tidy Draft Share</strong> lets you share any unpublished WordPress post with clients, editors, or collaborators — without publishing it and without giving them a WordPress account.</p>
<p>Generate a secure, time-limited link and send it to anyone. They will see the post exactly as it will look once published: same theme, same layout, same formatting.</p>
<h4>Why Tidy Draft Share?</h4>
<p>Most editorial workflows hit the same wall: <em>“Can you take a look at this before I publish it?”</em>. The usual workarounds — copying text into an email, exporting a PDF, or creating a temporary user account — are clunky and error-prone.</p>
<p>Tidy Draft Share solves this with a single click. Create a link, send it, done. The recipient sees a pixel-perfect preview of the post inside your actual theme. When the link expires, access is gone.</p>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>One-click sharing</strong> — Generate a secure link from the editor sidebar or the posts list, and copy it to your clipboard instantly</li>
<li><strong>Flexible expiration</strong> — Choose from 1 hour, 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days, 30 days, or no expiration at all</li>
<li><strong>Revoke anytime</strong> — Disable any link immediately with one click; access stops on the spot</li>
<li><strong>Multiple links per post</strong> — Create separate links for different reviewers, each with its own expiration and view count</li>
<li><strong>View tracking</strong> — See how many times each link has been opened</li>
<li><strong>Works everywhere</strong> — Supports posts, pages, and any custom post type (WooCommerce products, portfolio items, etc.)</li>
<li><strong>All unpublished statuses</strong> — Drafts, pending review, scheduled, and private posts</li>
<li><strong>SEO safe</strong> — Shared previews include a noindex/nofollow meta tag automatically, so search engines never index them</li>
<li><strong>Preview banner</strong> — A clear “Draft preview” banner at the top of the page tells the reader the content is not published yet</li>
<li><strong>Expired link page</strong> — Visitors see a clean, branded message when a link has expired instead of a confusing error</li>
<li><strong>Gutenberg & Classic</strong> — Full sidebar panel in the block editor, classic meta box for older setups</li>
<li><strong>Quick share from posts list</strong> — One-click share directly from your posts table, no need to open the editor</li>
<li><strong>Clean uninstall</strong> — All data is removed from your database when the plugin is deleted</li>
</ul>
<h4>Use cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Share a formatted article with a client for approval before publishing</li>
<li>Let an external editor proofread a draft without creating a WordPress account</li>
<li>Preview scheduled content with your marketing team or stakeholders</li>
<li>Send a private post to a specific person without opening it to all logged-in users</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy & security</h4>
<p>Every share link uses a cryptographically secure 32-character token. Token validation uses constant-time comparison to prevent timing attacks. Links are checked on every visit — expired or revoked links return a 403 immediately. No data is sent to external servers; everything stays in your WordPress database.</p>


Tidy Draft Share

Share unpublished WordPress posts with anyone via secure, expiring preview links — no login required.

PreviewShare vs Tidy Draft Share