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Public Preview Links Pro

Share draft posts with people who can’t log in

Create a link to a draft, pending, scheduled or private post that anyone can open without logging in. Links expire, and you can revoke them.

Get Pro from $29/year or read the Public Preview Links docs

Included in every Pro plan, alongside all the other modules.

included in every Pro plan
Pro
settings to configure
2
developer hook
1
last improved in
3.2.7
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Why you need Public Preview Links

Getting a client to approve a draft usually means creating them an account, sending screenshots or publishing early. All of them slow the job down.

What Public Preview Links does

  • In the editor

    Generate and copy a link from the block editor sidebar or the classic editor.

  • Expiring links

    Set a default lifetime in hours, or 0 for links that never expire.

  • Revoke anytime

    Turn a link off once the review is done.

What you can configure

2 settings, all included with Pro.

  • Post Types Enable public preview links for the selected post types.
  • Default Expiry (hours) How long a newly generated preview link stays valid. Set to 0 to never expire.

Where Public Preview Links helps

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    Client approvals

    Send a link, get a yes, publish.

  • A photographer in her studio with WP Extended open on a desktop monitor

    Editorial review

    Let a subject-matter expert check an article before it goes live.

Public Preview Links vs Public Post Preview

Public Post Preview has 100k+ active installs on WordPress.org. If you only need this one job, that’s a fine choice. If the site also needs other modules on this list, it’s one less plugin to update.

The difference
Public Preview Links does the same core job inside WP Extended, so it shares one settings screen, one update and one support team with every other module you use.

For developers

Public Preview Links has 1 hook for changing its behaviour per project, without editing the plugin.

All Public Preview Links hooks
filter functions.php or a Code Snippet
add_filter( 'wpextended/public-preview-links/excluded_post_types', function ( $excluded ) {
    // Filters the post types left out of this module’s post type list.
    return $excluded;
} );
  • public-preview-links/excluded_post_types

Recent changes

The latest updates to Public Preview Links, from the WP Extended changelog.

Full changelog
  1. v3.2.7 21 Jun 2026
    • added

      Generate publicly accessible preview links for draft, pending, scheduled, and private posts so reviewers can view unpublished content without logging in. Native block editor and classic editor integration, with expiring tokens, one-click copy, and revoke.

Public Preview Links questions

Public Preview Links documentation

No. It is part of WP Extended Pro.

Preview links use a token in the URL and aren’t linked from your site, so they are only seen by people you send them to.

Pairs well with

All Content Management

Get Public Preview Links with WP Extended Pro

Every Pro plan includes Public Preview Links and the rest of the toolkit, with updates and support.

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