by Lester Chan 5 (6 reviews)

WP-DraftsForFriends

Name: WP-DraftsForFriends
Rating: 5.0 (6 reviews)
Author: Lester Chan

Now you don't need to add friends as users to the blog in order to let them preview your drafts

WP-DraftsForFriends ranks #5,261 among WordPress.org plugins with 1,000+ active installations, is #141 of 1,739 in the User Management category, a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews, and was last updated Sep 1, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v2.0.2 Current Version v2.0.2

Updated 2 weeks ago Last Update on 01 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 15 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#141 of 1,739 in User Management Top 10% by installs Downloads -12.7% this week Actively maintained

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+6 this week

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1K+

-49%

KW Avg Position

18.4

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18.1K

+11 today

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Review 5 out of 5

5 (6 reviews)

Next Milestone 2K

Total Progress 26%

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.0.2
Last Updated: Sep 01, 2026
Requires WP: 6.8+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 8.2 or higher
Author: Lester Chan

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
Reviews: 6
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 100%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to share draft posts with people who aren't registered users on their blog. It solves this by generating a unique, time-limited link that lets recipients preview a draft before it's published.

Generates unique preview link
Sets link expiry date
Allows draft preview without user accounts

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP-DraftsForFriends

It is still under Posts, and it is now one page with two tabs — Shared Drafts and Settings — rather than a screen with no settings of its own. The address changed, from edit.php?page=wp-draftsforfriends/wp-draftsforfriends.php to edit.php?page=wp-draftsforfriends, so an old bookmark needs replacing. The old address had the plugin's own folder name in it, which meant the page moved if you ever renamed the folder. Links you have already given to friends are unaffected. Those point at the post itself and never went through the admin screen.

They are bulk actions now, above and below the list. Tick the rows you want, choose Extend Selected or Revoke Selected, and press Apply. Extend uses the Extend by duration next to the dropdown. A row action is a plain link, and a plain link is one browser prefetch or one link checker away from being followed without anybody meaning to. Revoking cannot be undone, and extending silently prolongs public access to something you have not published, so neither should be reachable that way. A friend says the link shows "Page not found" The link has expired, it has been revoked, or the post has been moved to the trash. Open Posts -> WP-DraftsForFriends and look at the Expires After column: an expired share reads Expired. Tick that row, set Extend by, and choose Extend Selected — the same link starts working again. Restoring the post from the trash also makes its links work again. Once the post is published the link stops previewing and simply shows the published post, which is public by then anyway.

Anyone with the edit_others_posts capability — administrators and editors — sees every shared draft on the site and can share any unpublished post. Authors and contributors see only their own, and can only share posts they are allowed to edit.

No. Comments are forced closed on a shared draft.

No. That is the point of the plugin: the link works for a logged-out visitor, and only for the post it was issued for, and only until it expires.

No. Sharing, extending and revoking are ordinary form submissions handled on the server, so all three work with JavaScript turned off. The script only adds the copy button, a warning before you revoke, and catching a missing draft or a nonsense duration before the page reloads. The post editor's box is the same: with JavaScript off it shows a checkbox that creates the link when you next save the post, in place of the Create Share Link button.