Title: DemoDeck
Author: rsmith4321
Published: June 2, 2026
Last modified: June 2, 2026
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# DemoDeck
By [rsmith4321](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rsmith4321/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/demodeck.2.2.2.zip)
* [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/demodeck/#description)
* [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/demodeck/#reviews)
* [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/demodeck/#installation)
* [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/demodeck/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/demodeck/)
## Description
DemoDeck is the ultimate tool for web designers, agencies, and theme developers
who want to showcase their work professionally. It automatically generates a beautiful,
full-screen, responsive iframe previewer so clients can test your sites on desktop,
tablet, and mobile views.
The plugin also generates a beautiful, centralized “Hub” grid page to display all
your available demos in one place.
**Key Features:**
* **Categorize Your Demos:** Organize your portfolio by separating
client work from starting templates using the built-in custom taxonomy. * **Smart
Dropdown Grouping:** The previewer automatically groups your sites by category,
making it easy for clients to navigate your different offerings. * **Full-Screen
Previewer:** Clients can view your sites with a sleek top bar featuring device toggles(
Desktop, Tablet, Mobile). * **Central Hub Page:** Automatically creates a gorgeous
grid directory of all your demo sites, which can be filtered by category via shortcode.***
Drag-and-Drop Sorting:** Easily reorder how your sites appear on the frontend grid
by simply dragging and dropping rows in the WordPress admin area. * **Smart SEO
Protection:** Prevents duplicate content penalties by hiding SEO meta boxes on demo
pages and automatically applying `noindex` tags to the iframe wrappers. * **Customizable
Colors:** Easily match the previewer top bar and grid buttons to your own brand
colors. * **Foolproof UI:** Designed with non-technical users in mind, featuring
clear instructions and logical setup flows.
## Installation
1. Upload the `demodeck` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory, or install
it directly through the WordPress plugins screen.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
3. Upon activation, a new “Example Sites” page will be automatically generated for
you.
4. Navigate to **Demo Sites > Getting Started** in your WordPress dashboard to configure
your brand colors and view the setup instructions.
5. Go to **Demo Sites > Add New Demo Site** to start adding and categorizing your
projects!
## FAQ
### How can I separate my Real Sites from Templates?
You can use the built-in “Categories” taxonomy. Create your categories (e.g., “Real
Sites”, “Templates”), assign your demo sites to them, and use the shortcode attribute
to display specific grids on your pages: `[demo_sites_hub category="real-sites"]`.
### How do I group sites in the previewer dropdown?
The plugin automatically groups your sites by category in the top-bar dropdown.
You can even control the order of these groups by setting a custom “Display Order”
number when creating or editing your categories!
### How do I change the order of my demo sites?
It’s incredibly easy! Go to **Demo Sites > All Demo Sites**. Simply click and drag
any row up or down to change its position. The new order will automatically save
and instantly update your live Hub page grid.
### I accidentally deleted the Hub page, what do I do?
Don’t worry! Go to **Demo Sites > Getting Started** and scroll down to the “Page
Setup Tool”. Click the button to instantly regenerate the page with the correct
shortcode. You can also manually create a page and paste the `[demo_sites_hub]`
shortcode.
### Why does it say “Disable SEO plugins” in the settings?
Because your demo pages load your actual live websites inside an iframe, allowing
Google to index these preview pages can cause “duplicate content” penalties against
your main sites. The plugin safely hides these preview pages from search engines
so all your SEO value stays on your main websites where it belongs.
## Reviews
There are no reviews for this plugin.
## Contributors & Developers
“DemoDeck” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.
Contributors
* [ rsmith4321 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rsmith4321/)
[Translate “DemoDeck” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/demodeck)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/demodeck/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/demodeck/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/demodeck/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/demodeck/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 2.2.2
* **Compliance:** All CSS and JavaScript is now loaded through the standard WordPress
enqueue system (wp_enqueue_style / wp_enqueue_script) instead of inline tags.
Dynamic brand colors are injected with wp_add_inline_style and the admin sorting
nonce via wp_localize_script. No functional or visual changes.
#### 2.2.1
* Compatibility: marked as tested up to WordPress 7.0.
#### 2.2.0
* **Security:** The drag-and-drop reorder action now verifies that each submitted
ID is a Demo Site the current user is allowed to edit, so it can never affect
other content types.
* **Fix:** Permalinks for demo sites and categories now work immediately on activation(
rewrite rules are flushed), instead of needing a manual re-save under Settings
> Permalinks.
* **Hardening:** Added a capability check when saving the category “Display Order”
field.
* **Accessibility:** Added screen-reader labels to the previewer’s device-view
buttons, the demo selector, and the close button.
* **Housekeeping:** Plugin options are now removed on uninstall (your Demo Sites,
thumbnails, and pages are kept).
* **Internal:** Renamed internal function and option prefixes for cleaner namespacing.
Existing settings and demo URLs are migrated automatically on update.
#### 2.1.0
* **Major Feature:** Introduced a Custom Taxonomy (Categories) to easily organize
and separate different types of demo sites (e.g., Real Sites vs. Templates).
* **Feature:** Added a “Display Order” numerical field to Categories, allowing
you to easily control the exact sorting order of your category groups.
* **Feature:** The full-screen previewer dropdown now automatically groups your
demo sites by category using `