About this plugin
Tidy Draft Share lets you share any unpublished WordPress post with clients, editors, or collaborators — without publishing it and without giving them a WordPress account.
Generate a secure, time-limited link and send it to anyone. They will see the post exactly as it will look once published: same theme, same layout, same formatting.
Why Tidy Draft Share?
”. The usual workarounds — copying text into an email, exporting a PDF, or creating a temporary user account — are clunky and error-prone.
Tidy Draft Share solves this with a single click. Create a link, send it, done. The recipient sees a pixel-perfect preview of the post inside your actual theme.
When the link expires, access is gone.
Key features
- One-click sharing — Generate a secure link from the editor sidebar or the posts list, and copy it to your clipboard instantly
- Flexible expiration — Choose from 1 hour, 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days, 30 days, or no expiration at all
- Revoke anytime — Disable any link immediately with one click; access stops on the spot
- Multiple links per post — Create separate links for different reviewers, each with its own expiration and view count
- View tracking — See how many times each link has been opened
- Works everywhere — Supports posts, pages, and any custom post type (WooCommerce products, portfolio items, etc.)
- All unpublished statuses — Drafts, pending review, scheduled, and private posts
- SEO safe — Shared previews include a noindex/nofollow meta tag automatically, so search engines never index them
- Preview banner — A clear “Draft preview” banner at the top of the page tells the reader the content is not published yet
- Expired link page — Visitors see a clean, branded message when a link has expired instead of a confusing error
- Gutenberg & Classic — Full sidebar panel in the block editor, classic meta box for older setups
- Quick share from posts list — One-click share directly from your posts table, no need to open the editor
- Clean uninstall — All data is removed from your database when the plugin is deleted
Use cases
- Share a formatted article with a client for approval before publishing
- Let an external editor proofread a draft without creating a WordPress account
- Preview scheduled content with your marketing team or stakeholders
- Send a private post to a specific person without opening it to all logged-in users
Privacy & security
Every share link uses a cryptographically secure 32-character token. Token validation uses constant-time comparison to prevent timing attacks. Links are checked on every visit — expired or revoked links return a 403 immediately.
No data is sent to external servers; everything stays in your WordPress database.
More from Tidy Plugins
If you like this plugin, take a look at the rest of the Tidy suite:
- Tidy Table of Contents — automatic, accessible table of contents
- Tidy Author Box — author bio box with avatar and social links
- Tidy Broken Link Scan — find broken links and images, no external service