Share a preview of your draft

A preview link shows the draft of your site, every page, at a private address. Anyone with the link can open it. Nobody needs to log in. Search engines are told to stay away.

Preview links are on Pro and above.

Create the link

1. Open your site in the editor and click Settings.
2. Click Version history.
3. In Preview link, click Create link.
4. Click Copy link and send it to whoever needs to see the draft.

The page they open shows your draft as it is right now. When you change something in the editor, they refresh and see the change. A small "Draft preview" label sits in the corner so nobody mistakes it for the live site.

Stop sharing

• Make a new link gives you a fresh address. The old one stops working for everyone at once.
• Turn off removes the link. You can create a new one at any time.

Only owners and admins of the site can create, replace or turn off the link. Editors can see and copy it.

What the preview shows

• All your pages, as they are in the draft.
• Blog posts, products and other collection items, as last published, inside your draft design.
• Not shown: items you have never published, shop pages and app pages. Forms are shown but cannot be sent from the preview.

Pages in the preview say their real address is your live site, so search engines do not treat the preview as a copy of it.

Common questions

Does the link expire? No. A visitor who opened it is remembered for a week on that device, then they open the link again. The link itself works until you replace it or turn it off.

Can I put a password on it? Not yet.

Does it need a custom domain? No. The preview has its own address on contentmetric.com.