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GenerateBlocks
A small collection of lightweight WordPress blocks that can accomplish nearly anything.
- Installs
- 200,000+
- Rating
- 4.9 (122)
- Updated
- 18 days ago
Public Post Preview
Allow anonymous users to preview a draft of a post before it is published.
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- #364 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 1.9M
- 1,873,117
- Downloads, 30 days
- 45.5K
- 11.6K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5
- 79 reviews
- Last updated
- 2 days ago
- Oct 29, 2026
- Version
- 3.1.2
- 28 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 29, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.0.8Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.6 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 8.0 or newer |
| First published | February 20, 2009 |
| Support, last two months | 1 of 1 threads resolved (100%) |
Reviews
4.6 / 5 from 79 reviews
| 5 stars | 67 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 3 |
| 3 stars | 0 |
| 2 stars | 4 |
| 1 star | 5 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
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 uncheck the box again.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
I can’t find the option for preview links. Where is it?
The checkbox is only available for non-published posts and once a post was saved as a draft.
After some time the preview link returns the message “The link has been expired!”. Why?
The plugin generates an URL with an expiring nonce. By default a link “lives” 48 hours. After 48 hours the link is expired and you need to copy and share a new link which is automatically generated on the same place under the editor.
48 hours are not enough to me. Can I extend the nonce time?
Yes, of course. Go to Settings > Reading > Public Post Preview and increase the
Expiration Time setting. You can also use the filter ppp_nonce_life. Example for 5 days:
add_filter( 'ppp_nonce_life', 'my_nonce_life' ); function my_nonce_life() { return 5 * DAY_IN_SECONDS; }
Note: The setting UI is not visible if the filter is used.
The public preview shows an outdated version of the post. Why?
Preview pages are sent with headers that tell browsers, proxies and CDNs not to cache them. Some caching setups ignore these headers, for example a CDN rule that caches every page, such as “Cache Everything” on Cloudflare, or a page cache that also caches URLs with query strings. Exclude URLs containing the _ppp parameter from your cache to fix this.
Latest changelog entry
- Fix hidden dynamic content added through the Block Bindings API. Props @krokodok.
Screenshots
Block Editor 
Classic Editor
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.