A pretty common problem in WordPress is that you have a draft of a post or page that you want to share with someone (who doesn’t have a login to your WordPress site). By default, sharing a draft link in WordPress to someone who isn’t logged in to your site doesn’t work. They’ll just see your 404 page. This happens to keep your unpublished content properly unpublished.

This week, we explain how to write your first filter hook in WordPress. If you like it, video’s right here:

Photon, which is a feature of the multi-talented Jetpack plugin from WordPress.com, is really easy to configure. We’ll assume you already have Jetpack installed. If you do, you can just watch the video and follow along – otherwise, continue reading and we’ll get into the basics of Jetpack Photon.