This plugin allows you to preview your drafts on home, category, archive and search pages (and in many other places).
As of April 2026, Preview Posts Everywhere is a WordPress draft plugin with 20 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Auto Post Scheduler.
Without that plugin you could preview every post in draft status just by clicking Preview button on post edit page. Unfortunately, that preview is available only for single page template. If you open home or category page you won’t see any drafts there.
Preview Posts Everywhere plugin will allow you to preview your drafts on home, category, archive and search pages. Now you can check your draft’s featured images, dates, titles on every page, before you publish the post.
Plugin works out of the box and after activation just go to home page to see your drafts on posts list. You do not need to click any preview button! Just go to your site and check list of posts. Remember that by default drafts will be visible only for logged in users with assigned Administrator role.
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| WordPress | 3.5.1+ requiredTested up to 4.0.38 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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