Share private preview links to your drafts
As of April 2026, Share a Draft is a WordPress post plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 64K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 10% this week. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
Drafts in WordPress are visible for the author and blog administrators. In many cases, however, you want
to share a draft with your friends or colleagues for either review or approval.
Share a Draft allows you to create a unique link to a draft for a limited time and send it to whoever you want.
when I use it to share w/ friends, they say it gives a 404 error
Easy to use and very useful.
Only works with Posts. Not Pages or custom post types. That limits its usefulness.
It didn’t need a separate link in the dashboard menu. Would have been better to put a link to share a draft next to the post titles.
I’ve tried the plugin on my Blog to give a friend access to a long report I wrote. It had 1100 Words and after I used this plugin the half text disappeared. Only the recover feature made it possible to get my post back. A better alternative ist Share Drafts Publicy which is also available in the wordpress plugin directory.
It’s simple and useful, I like very much this plugin.
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 5.8.13 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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