naoaki011/mt-plugin-enhanced-live-preview

A plugin for Melody and Movable Type that provides a richer preview experience that allows authors to share the preview with others so that it can be reviewed.

Preview Share plugin for Movable Type

As the name says, the Preview Share plugin for Movable Type allows authors to share Entry previews with others. When previewing an Entry a new button labeled "Share Preview" is available -- click it and you'll be given a URL to share, as well as opportunity to email this URL (and specify a message) to a list of recipients.

Configuration Settings

• PreviewShareDirectory

  Defaults to StaticFilePath/support/previews

• PreviewShareUrl

  Defaults to StaticWebPath/support/previews/

• PreviewShareLogPreviews

  Whether or not to log shared previews to the activity log.

  Defaults to 1 (on).

• PreviewShareSkipPublish

  Whether or not to skip the publishing step of entry saving when the shared preview entry is set to published. In other words, whether or not to follow the normal flow of publishing for entries or to force the post-preview share redirect to go directly to the entry edit page.

  Defaults to 1 (on).

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UI Changes

• Adds a "Share Preview" button to the live entry preview header. This action will save the entry being previewed. (N.B. that means that if the entry being previewed had been changed to published but not saved, it will be published if the preview is shared and the PreviewShareSkipPublish setting is turned off)

  The shared preview will also include any index templates set to be rebuild on entry publish (i.e., static).