Private Post Share

Previous Name: Sharable Password Protected Posts

WordPress plugin to share a link to anonymous users to view private and password protected posts (or any other public post type).

This plugin generates secret URLs (similar to Google Docs and other cloud services) for posts so you can share them with not-logged-in users without having to share an extra password with them.

Inspired by Public Post Preview

WordPress Plugin Repository

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. I just want to note, that the scope of this plugin is explicitly limited and I am not planning on extending it with a lot of features. Quality of live improvements, bug fixes, security fixes and code-quality improvements/tests are of course welcome.

Local Development Environment

The local development environment is based on DDEV.

After the first setup, remove the ##ddev-generated header from the wp-config.php file and change the ddev-include code to

$ddev_settings = __DIR__ . '/wp-config-ddev.php';
if ( getenv( 'IS_DDEV_PROJECT' ) == 'true' && is_readable( $ddev_settings ) ) {
	require_once( $ddev_settings );
}

It is recommended to run all tasks inside the ddev container.

• PHP Code Style can be checked/fix with composer run phpcs / `composer run phpcs:fix
• PHPStan can be checked with composer run phpstan
• PHP Code can be checked for quality via composer run code-quality
• Tests are implemented with WP-Browser and Codeception
• Composer scripts exist for the different test suites and for fast/slow tests
• JS/CSS Code can be formatted via npm run format
• JS/CSS Code can be built via npm run build
• Translations can be collected/built via composer run i18n
• A full plugin-zip can be built via composer run build

Releasing

1. Run linting, phpcs, phpcs:fix + phpstan
2. Update version
   • in main plugin file headers (/sharable-password-protected-posts.php)
   • in package.json
   • in composer.json + run ddev composer update -- --lockkk
   • stable tag in readme.txt
3. Add changelog entry in readme.txt and CHANGELOG.md
4. Optional: Update WordPress Tested up to and Requires at least in main plugin file headers ( sharable-password-protected-posts.php/readme.txt)
5. Run (ddev) composer i18n to update translation files
6. Create PR / merge into main -> will trigger build and deploy-wporg CI jobs
7. Create a new release with a new tag in main vX.Y.Z with changelog