Name: BreakUI Preview Pass
Author: Md Moniruzzaman Monir

BreakUI Preview Pass lets you send a client a private link to a draft page. They open it in their browser, with no WordPress account and no staging site, and see the page exactly as it will look when it goes live: your theme, your page builder layout, your fonts.

When they’re done, they can approve the page or request changes. They can even click the exact heading, button or image they mean, and you get a screenshot of it with the spot marked.

Every feature is free. There is no Pro version and nothing to unlock.

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Private preview links

Create a link from the page editor sidebar, the Pages list, or the BreakUI Preview Pass dashboard
Works with drafts, pending, scheduled and private posts
Links expire automatically after 1 hour, 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days or 30 days, or never
Revoke any link instantly
Optional password for each link, with a limit on wrong attempts
View counts and last viewed time (your own team’s visits are not counted)
A small “Private preview” badge shows the client when the link expires
Clean pages for expired, revoked or wrong links

Client approval

An “Is this page ready?” bar on the preview with Approve Page and Request Changes
Review status in the editor and the dashboard: Awaiting review, Approved or Changes requested
Email alerts when a client approves or sends feedback, with Reply-To set to the client’s email

Point-and-click feedback

Clients click “Point to the area on the page” and then click or tap any element
The element is highlighted and labelled while they choose, for example Heading, Button or Image
Links and buttons don’t navigate while picking, so clients can’t wander off
Each request records the element, its text, the device, browser, operating system and screen size
A screenshot of that part of the page is saved with the element outlined and the click point marked
Numbered pins show where feedback was left
Works on phones and tablets

Tablet and phone review

Clients press Tablet or Phone to see the page at 768 or 390 pixels wide, right inside the preview
Notes left there are saved with the screen size, so you know a problem only happens on phones

Reply threads

Reply to any note from the Feedback screen, and optionally email the client
Clients see your replies on the pin and can answer back, with no login
Every reply is shown in one thread under the note

Approval history

A timeline of who approved or asked for changes, with their email, date, device and the page version they saw
Links to the WordPress revision that was approved
A warning when you edit a page after the client approved it

Your brand, not ours

Pick the button colours, the logo (your site logo or any image), the badge title and the name your clients see
Change every client-facing text on the password screen and the review toolbar
White label: use your own plugin name and icon in the WordPress dashboard, and hide “Secured by BreakUI Preview Pass” and the Preview Pass mark from clients

Projects and sign-off

Share every page of a site with one project link. Your client sees their progress (“4 of 6 pages approved”) and signs off once every page is approved. You get a sign-off record you can save as a PDF, with each page, who approved it, when, and the revision.

Review rounds

When you fix the notes, click “Ask client to check”. The client gets an email, sees the changed parts highlighted on the page, and ticks each fix as “Looks good” or “Not yet”. Reopened notes come back to your list.

Suggest new text, or leave a voice note

Clients can click a heading or paragraph and type the wording they want. You see the old and new text side by side, with a Copy button. On phones they can record a short voice note instead of typing.

Deadlines and reminders

Set a “Review by” date when you create a link. The client sees the deadline on the page, gets a reminder if they haven’t opened the link after two days or the day before the deadline, and you see Waiting, Overdue or Approved on time on your dashboard.

Link activity

See when a link was opened, for how long, on which devices, how far the client scrolled and which sections they saw. Stored on your own site only.

Feedback board

Switch the Feedback screen to a board with To do, In progress and Done columns, and drag notes between them.

Client portal

One page where a client sees everything you’ve shared with them. They sign in with a link sent to their email, with no password and no WordPress account.

Slack, Discord and webhooks

Get approvals, change requests, replies and sign-offs in your team chat, or send them to Zapier, Make, n8n or your own app.

Feedback dashboard

Every request in one place, with screenshots, filters for open and resolved, and a filter per page
Show on Page opens the preview, scrolls to the element and highlights it
Mark requests as resolved, reopen them, or delete them

Built for page builders

Pages are rendered through the normal WordPress front end, so layouts from the block editor, Breakdance, Bricks, Elementor and other builders look exactly as they will when published. For builders that edit outside the WordPress editor, use the “Preview link” action in the Pages list.

Safe by default

Links use long random tokens. Only a hash and an encrypted copy are stored, keyed to your site’s salts.
A link opens one page, read-only. It gives no access to the dashboard, the REST API or the media library.
Previews are never cached. BreakUI Preview Pass sends no-cache headers and supports WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache and other caching plugins.
Previews are kept out of search engines with noindex headers, and canonical tags are removed.
Password-protected links stay protected even if the plugin’s settings change.

Privacy

BreakUI Preview Pass adds suggested text to your Privacy Policy page and works with the WordPress “Export Personal Data” and “Erase Personal Data” tools. See the Privacy section below for exactly what is stored.

Made by BreakUI

BreakUI Preview Pass is built and maintained by BreakUI, a website template studio run by WordPress developer MD Moniruzzaman Monir. We build client sites every day, and this is the tool we wanted for sharing drafts with clients: no staging site, no client accounts, no back-and-forth over screenshots.

Questions or ideas? Use the support forum on WordPress.org.

Privacy

BreakUI Preview Pass does not send any data to external services unless you connect one (see “External services” below).

When a client approves a page or requests changes, BreakUI Preview Pass stores the name they enter, their email address (optional), their message and the date. If they point at part of the page, it also stores which element they selected, their device type, browser, operating system and screen size, and a screenshot of that part of the page. IP addresses are not stored with feedback.

Replies to feedback store the name, email (optional), message and date of the person replying. The page version (last saved date and revision ID) is stored with each approval or change request so you can see what was approved.

Voice notes are saved as audio files in the same private uploads folder as screenshots. Link activity stores, for each visit, the device type, time on page, how far the page was scrolled and which headings were seen, with a random visit ID. It does not store IP addresses or set cookies, and you can turn it off in Settings. Your team’s own visits are not recorded.

The client portal sets a cookie named previewpass_portal with the client’s email and a signature after they open a sign-in link. It lasts 30 days. A project sign-off stores the name the client types, the date and their device type.

For password-protected links, a cookie named previewpass_{id} remembers that the client entered the password. It expires when the link expires. The client’s name and email are remembered in their browser’s local storage to fill in the feedback form next time.

External services

This plugin connects to outside services only if you paste a webhook address in Settings › Integrations. Nothing is sent before that.

Slack (hooks.slack.com): when a client approves a page, requests changes, replies, opens a link or signs off a project (the events you choose), the plugin sends the page title, the client’s name, their message and a link to your dashboard to the Slack incoming webhook you entered. Slack terms, Slack privacy policy.
Discord (discord.com): the same information, sent to the Discord channel webhook you entered. Discord terms, Discord privacy policy.
Your own webhook: the same information as JSON, sent to the address you entered (for example Zapier, Make or n8n). That service’s own terms and privacy policy apply.

Third-party libraries

BreakUI Preview Pass includes html2canvas 1.4.1 by Niklas von Hertzen (MIT license) to create feedback screenshots in the visitor’s browser. The file is assets/vendor/html2canvas.min.js. The unminified source code is available at https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas/tree/v1.4.1

The admin screens use two bundled fonts, both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1: Bricolage Grotesque (assets/fonts/bricolage-grotesque-700.woff2) and Geist (assets/fonts/geist-variable.woff2). Their licenses are next to the font files.

Developers

BreakUI Preview Pass has actions and filters for most of what it does. Some examples:

previewpass_expiry_options to change the expiry choices
previewpass_single_link_per_post to allow more than one active link per page
previewpass_review_recipients to change who gets feedback emails
previewpass_show_review_bar and previewpass_show_feedback_pins to control what clients see
previewpass_notice_messages and previewpass_notice_credit to change the text on expired-link pages
previewpass_review_submitted, previewpass_link_created and previewpass_link_viewed actions for your own integrations

Themes can override the client-facing templates by copying them from the plugin’s templates folder to yourtheme/previewpass/.