u/Erdowp

I got tired of "the button looks wrong" emails with no context — which button, what's wrong, on which page.

Erdo Client Preview lets a client click directly on any element on the page and leave a note pinned to it. You see numbered pins next time you visit logged in, reply inline, mark as done. There's also a general feedback box (no account needed) for anything that's not tied to a specific element.

Access is controlled with magic links — a private, named, expiring link per person — sitting behind a coming soon / maintenance screen so only people with a link can get in.

Everything's stored in your own database, no external service, no API keys.

Free: https://wordpress.org/plugins/erdo-client-preview/

It's new, so feedback on what's missing is very welcome.

I manage a few WordPress sites and kept hitting the same wall: every image optimizer I tried either wanted a monthly subscription, capped how many images I could process for free, or only handled WebP and not AVIF. I got tired of it and built my own plugin to actually fix this properly

What it does:

- Converts JPEG/PNG/GIF/HEIC (iPhone photos) to WebP or AVIF in one click

- Runs a 6-point SEO audit on every image in your media library — checks alt text, filename quality, title, dimensions, and a few other things, then tells you exactly what to fix

- Bulk-generates alt text for images that don't have any

- Cleans up filenames (no more IMG_1234.jpg) and finds unused images sitting in your media library

- Adds lazy loading automatically

- Has WP-CLI support if you need to convert a few thousand images at once

It's free on WordPress.org, no account or API key needed to use it: https://wordpress.org/plugins/erdo-image-optimizer/

Still actively building on it, so if you try it and something's missing or broken, let me know — happy to take feedback or answer questions.

For a while now, every time a client wanted to see a draft post before it went live, I'd either have to create them a WordPress account (which always felt like overkill and a bit risky for a one-time preview) or export the thing as a PDF, which never looked right and didn't show how it'd actually appear on the site.

After running into this one too many times, I ended up building a small plugin to fix it for myself. It lets you generate a secure, temporary link for any draft, private, or published post — anyone with the link can open it and see exactly how it looks live, without logging in or needing an account. The link can be set to expire after 24 hours, a few days, or never, and you can revoke it any time. It works whether you're using the Block Editor or the Classic Editor.

I cleaned it up and put it on WP.org as a free plugin (Erdo Draft Links), figured other people doing client work might run into the same annoyance. If you give it a try, I'd genuinely like to hear how it works for your workflow, or if there's something it's missing that would make it more useful.

Free on WP.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/erdo-draft-links/