Public Post Preview allows you to create a link to a draft version of a page, post, or people profile which can be shared with anyone.
This plugin is optional. Please contact is-wld@kent.ac.uk if you require this activated.
Description
The Public Preview option (located within the ‘Publish‘ box on the right side of the edit post / page screen) allows you to create a shareable link to a ‘draft‘ page, post, or people profile which would otherwise not be accessable by anyone not logged into your site.
This option only works on draft content and will not be available if the page / post is already published. If the content is already published you will first need to change the ‘Status‘ to draft.
How to use it?
- First, save you page / post as draft by clicking on the ‘Save Draft‘ button within the ‘Publish‘ box
- You should then see the ‘Enable public preview‘ checkbox appear
- Click on the checkbox and a URL will appear
- You can now copy and paste that URL to anyone you wish to be able to view that content
Note that people with that link are only able to view that draft page and no other draft content. They also do not have any ability to make changes to that content.