Description

Enables you to give a link to anonymous users for public preview 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 blog 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 Matt Martz and was an idea of Jonathan Dingman. Thanks to Hans Dinkelberg for his photo.

Usage

To enable a public post preview check the box below the edit post box.
The link will be displayed if the checkbox is checked, just copy and share the link with your friends.
To disable a preview just uncheck the box.

Screenshots

Edit Posts Page

Installation

Note: There will be NO settings page.

For an automatic installation through WordPress:

Go to the ‘Add New’ plugins screen in your WordPress admin area
Search for ‘Public Post Preview’
Click ‘Install Now’ and activate the plugin

For a manual installation via FTP:

Upload the public-post-preview directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in your WordPress admin area

To upload the plugin through WordPress, instead of FTP:

Upload the downloaded zip file on the ‘Add New’ plugins screen (see the ‘Upload’ tab) in your WordPress admin area and activate.

FAQ

Installation Instructions

Note: There will be NO settings page.

For an automatic installation through WordPress:

Go to the ‘Add New’ plugins screen in your WordPress admin area
Search for ‘Public Post Preview’
Click ‘Install Now’ and activate the plugin

For a manual installation via FTP:

Upload the public-post-preview directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in your WordPress admin area

To upload the plugin through WordPress, instead of FTP:

Upload the downloaded zip file on the ‘Add New’ plugins screen (see the ‘Upload’ tab) in your WordPress admin area and activate.

I can’t find the option for preview links. Where is it?

The checkbox is only available for non-published posts and once a post was saved as a draft.

After some time the preview link returns the message «The link has been expired!». Why?

The plugin generates an URL with an expiring nonce. By default a link «lives» 48 hours. After 48 hours the link is expired and you need to copy and share a new link which is automatically generated on the same place under the editor.

48 hours are not enough to me. Can I extend the nonce time?

Yes, of course. You can use the filter ppp_nonce_life. Example for 5 days:

add_filter( 'ppp_nonce_life', 'my_nonce_life' );
function my_nonce_life() {
    return 60 * 60 * 24 * 5; // 5 days
}

Or use the Public Post Preview Configurator.

Reviews

Very useful

Phil

Works like a charm, thanks!

Perfect

Iconic

Simply installed it and it works.

A lifesaver plugin

goglplx

This is one of those small utility plugins that makes life as a WP website designer so much easier. And, with the configurator, you can make the time-out be whatever you want!

This needs to have a pro version just so we can pay bjoerne to keep this little gem updated!

Great job bjoerne!

Very Useful!

megane9988

Nice Thanks!

Work like a charm!

cubewalker

Great, I can share my post for guest blogging review now!

Great time saver! Hugely valuable tool!

Liam Dempsey

As a content generator writing and editing content for clients, this plugin has been a fantastic time saver in allowing me to share draft posts without asking clients to login to their sites. Great work!

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Contributors & Developers

“Public Post Preview” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Dominik Schilling (ocean90)

“Public Post Preview” has been translated into 11 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Public Post Preview” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

2.6.0 (2017-04-27):

Make DS_Public_Post_Preview::get_preview_link() public. Props @rcstr.
Send no-cache headers for public post previews.

2.5.0 (2016-04-05):

Auto select preview link on focus. Props @JeroenSormani.
Remove preview status from posts which are trashed or after scheduled posts are published.
Add support for paged posts.

2.4.1 (2015-10-13):

Update text domain to support language packs. Translations are now managed via https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/public-post-preview.

2.4 (2014-08-21):

Supports EditFlow and custom statuses
Disables comments and pings during public post preview
Adds Public Preview to the list of display states used in the Posts list table
Prevents flickering of link box on Post edit while loading

2.3 (2013-11-18):

Introduces a filter ppp_preview_link. With the filter you can adjust the preview link.
If a post has gone live, redirect to it’s proper permalink.
Adds the query var _ppp to WordPress SEO by Yoast whitelist.

2.2 (2013-03-15):

Based on feedback I have removed the extra metabox and added the preview link to the main Publish metabox.
Only show the checkbox if the post status/post type is good.
Requires WordPress 3.5.

2.1.1 (2012-09-19):

Sorry for the new update. Through a change in 2.1 a filter was applied to each query. The misplaced «The link has been expired!» message is now gone. Props Aki Björklund and Jonathan Channon.

2.1 (2012-09-16):

Introduces a filter ppp_nonce_life. With the filter you can adjust the expiration of a link. By default a link has a lifetime of 48 hours.
In some situations (still not sure when) the preview link is rewritten as a permalink which results in an error. The plugin now works in this situations too.

2.0.1 (2012-07-25):

Makes the preview link copyable again

2.0 (2012-07-23):

Support for all public post types
Saves public preview status via an AJAX request
I18n
Requires at least WordPress 3.3

1.3 (2009-06-30):

Hook in earlier in the post selection process to fix PHP notices
Add uninstall functionality to remove options from the options table

1.2 (2009-03-30):

Fix preview URL for scheduled posts on sites with a permalink other than default activated.

1.1 (2009-03-11):

Don’t limit public previews to posts in draft or pending status. Just exclude posts in publish status.

1.0 (2009-02-20):

Initial Public Release

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Perfect

A lifesaver plugin

Very Useful!

Work like a charm!

Great time saver! Hugely valuable tool!

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2.4.1 (2015-10-13):

2.4 (2014-08-21):

2.3 (2013-11-18):

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