Public Post Preview
Allow anonymous users to preview a draft of a post before it is published.
4.5(79 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, Public Post Preview is a WordPress posts plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 79 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.6M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.6+ and PHP 8.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 9% this week. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
4.5/579 reviews
100K+active installs
1.6M+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
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 Matt Martz and was an idea of Jonathan Dingman. Photo by Annelies Geneyn.
Usage
- To enable a public post preview check the box in the document settings. In the classic editor it’s in the “Publish” meta box.
- The link will be displayed if the checkbox is checked, you can copy and share the link with your friends.
- To disable a preview unchec…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.579 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Awesome Plugin
by Mohsin Alam·4 months ago
Does the work as it is advertised. Thanks for this good plugin.
What Happened?!
by mokuh·10 months ago
The preview links no longer work. Users are forced to log in when using the public preview link – defeating the entire purpose of this plugin. This used to be a must-have plugin. Unless you fix this, you are a must dump plugin.
WP: 6.7.2
Public Post Preview: 3.0.1
- This topic was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by mokuh.
no longer working
by bbbstoked·1 year ago
Been using this plugin always then all of a sudden it stopped working..
Super handy in order to work with clients and third parties
by mcd·1 year ago
Super handy in order to work with clients and third parties.
No longer works
by Json Koning·1 year ago
functionality is completely missing for me with the latest version of WP
- This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Json Koning.
Download Trends
Today: 853Yesterday: 1KThis week: 7KPeriod total: 322K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.6+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 8.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.1
33.7%
v2.10
26.4%
v3.0
25.9%
v2.9
10.1%
Other
3.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.1.0 (2026-03-01):
- Requires WordPress 6.6.
- Compatibility with WordPress 7.0.
- Add
ppp_show_public_previewaction for plugin extenders.
Contributors
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