Title: DemoNest Sandbox Builder Author: WP Manage Studio Published: October 14, 2026 Last modified: October 14, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/demonest-sandbox-builder/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3746206) ![](https://ps.w.org/demonest-sandbox-builder/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3745976) # DemoNest Sandbox Builder By [WP Manage Studio](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpmanagestudio/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/demonest-sandbox-builder.0.1.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/demonest-sandbox-builder/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/demonest-sandbox-builder/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/demonest-sandbox-builder/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/demonest-sandbox-builder/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/demonest-sandbox-builder/) ## Description DemoNest Sandbox Builder creates private, temporary, isolated WordPress Multisite sandbox sites for visitors to test plugins, themes, and WooCommerce stores. Use it for plugin, theme, WooCommerce extension, agency and product demos. DemoNest Sandbox Builder is not a shared-demo or external SaaS service. It creates a separate, private, temporary sandbox subsite for each visitor inside the site owner’s own WordPress Multisite network. **How it works** 1. Demo Product: you prepare a demo-safe template site and create a Demo Product from it. It can have a primary plugin or theme, required dependencies, supporting plugins, safe demo-data profiles and an optional Demo Launch Guide (a short start page for the tester). 2. Shortcode: put `[demonest_sandbox_builder demo_product="your-slug"]` on a page. 3. Visitor request: the visitor picks 10 or 20 minutes. Instant Demo Access needs no email and opens in the same browser. Email Verified Access, if you choose it for a product, sends a verification link and then a one-time access link. 4. Isolated sandbox: each visitor gets a separate sandbox with a restricted temporary demo user. Dependencies are activated first, then the primary item. 5. Expiry and cleanup: when time is up, access is revoked, then the sandbox site and its data are removed. This is automatic. **What a Demo Product can include** * A primary plugin or theme, required dependencies (found automatically from “Requires Plugins” headers and checked before you save), supporting plugins and safe demo- data profiles. Nothing is downloaded and testers can never install, update or activate plugins or themes. * A Demo Launch Guide: a title, a short introduction and one to four buttons that open places inside the tester’s own sandbox, never another website. Presets fill the form and detect the primary plugin’s settings page when it is clear. **Demo data** * WooCommerce Store Ready creates fictional demo data only (products, reviews and a few orders from clearly fake customers). It never copies customers, orders, payment data, licences or private content from any site. * Seed-data protection keeps the preloaded demo products, orders and pages while testers can still create, edit and delete their own test data. **Self-hosted** Everything runs on your own network. No DemoNest Sandbox Builder account, API key or external demo service is needed, and there is no telemetry, analytics, advertising, tracking or licensing service. ### Privacy No analytics, telemetry, advertising, tracking, licensing service or third-party SaaS is used, and no visitor data is sent to any DemoNest Sandbox Builder-controlled server. The few requests the plugin makes are ones you control: * Email: with Email Verified Access, a verification email and a ready email go through your site’s own `wp_mail()`. Instant Demo Access sends no email. * Email Delivery Check: DNS lookups of the From domain and a test email to the administrator happen only after a Network Administrator presses the button. * Loopback: while a store is prepared, an authenticated request goes only to a site of your own WordPress network. A visitor’s email address is held in a short-lived temporary record for up to 30 minutes before confirmation and at most 2 hours afterwards, then removed. The plugin’s tables keep only a keyed one-way hash of it. The demo user gets a placeholder address on the reserved `.invalid` domain. Verification links last 30 minutes, access links 60 minutes and handoff tokens 2 minutes, are single use and are stored only as hashes. Instant Demo Access sets one HttpOnly cookie (`ewdb_instant`, about one hour). Logs hold identifiers and codes, never email addresses or tokens. The optional attribution line is voluntary and off by default. A Network Administrator can turn it on; it is plain text, loads nothing and appears only on screens the plugin creates. The plugin does not register a WordPress personal-data exporter or eraser, because it keeps no raw visitor email beyond the short-lived records above. A suggested privacy text is added under Settings > Privacy > Policy Guide. ### Requirements * WordPress Multisite, network-activated. On a single site the plugin stays inactive. * A demo-safe template site with demo content only, never real customers or orders. * Wildcard DNS and a wildcard TLS certificate for a subdomain network. A shared cookie domain is not needed: the plugin does not require a shared cookie domain. * Working email for Email Verified Access. * WP-Cron, or a real server cron job calling `wp-cron.php`, for expiry and cleanup. ### Uninstall Deleting the plugin removes nothing by default. If you first turn on “Delete DemoNest Sandbox Builder data on uninstall” in the network settings, deleting it removes only the plugin’s own tables, options and scheduled events. It never deletes sandbox sites, users or template sites. ## Screenshots [[ ## Installation 1. Enable Multisite and, for a subdomain network, wildcard DNS and TLS. 2. Upload the plugin and use Network Activate. 3. Create a template site with demo-safe content. 4. In Network Admin > DemoNest Sandbox Builder > Templates, choose Export Template Snapshot for it. Demos use the newest saved snapshot, so export again after changing the template. 5. Under Demo Products, add a product that uses the template site and Set its status to Active. 6. Put the shortcode `[demonest_sandbox_builder demo_product="your-slug"]` on a page of the main site. 7. Review Network Admin > DemoNest Sandbox Builder > Settings (network-wide, `manage_network_options` only) (the default duration only preselects a choice; the visitor’s own choice of 10 or 20 minutes is always used) and set up a real server cron job for `wp-cron. php`. ## FAQ ### Does it work on a single site? No. It needs Multisite. ### How long do demos last? Demos last exactly 10 or 20 minutes. The countdown starts when the sandbox becomes active, and an access link that is never opened expires after 60 minutes. There is no manual reset or custom duration and there is no fixed limit on the number of Demo Products you can set up. The Sandboxes screen is read-only. ### Which access mode should I use? Instant Demo Access is the default. Email Verified Access adds email verification and a one-time link; delivery depends on your own mail setup. ### Can testers damage the demo? Testers administer only their own sandbox and cannot install or activate plugins or themes. With seed-data protection on (the default for products with demo data), the preloaded products, orders and pages are refused with HTTP 403 if deleted or changed. ### What is copied from the template site? Only posts, pages, categories, tags and a short allowlist of safe core site options. Plugin settings, themes, active plugins, credentials, payment settings, users, media and custom taxonomies are not copied. ### Does the plugin add its name to my site? Not unless a Network Administrator turns the attribution line on in Settings. It is off by default and never added to your template site, theme, login or sign-up pages, WooCommerce pages, emails or other plugins. ### What happens to the demo user at cleanup? Access is revoked first, then the user’s membership is removed, then the sandbox site is deleted once it is proven to be an owned sandbox. The temporary user’s global account is deleted only if it belongs to that sandbox alone, is not a super admin and belongs to no other site; otherwise it is kept. ### Why was a demo not removed exactly on time? Cleanup runs on WP-Cron. On a low-traffic site use a real server cron job. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “DemoNest Sandbox Builder” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ WP Manage Studio ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpmanagestudio/) [Translate “DemoNest Sandbox Builder” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/demonest-sandbox-builder) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/demonest-sandbox-builder/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/demonest-sandbox-builder/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/demonest-sandbox-builder/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/demonest-sandbox-builder/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.1.0 * First release: Demo Products, template snapshots, shortcode, Instant Demo Access and Email Verified Access, temporary restricted demo users, dependency manager, WooCommerce Store Ready, seed-data protection, Demo Launch Guide, expiry and cleanup, and an optional, off-by-default attribution line. ## Meta * Version **0.1.0** * Last updated **1 day ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.3** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Tags * [demo](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/demo/)[multisite](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/multisite/) [network](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/network/)[sandbox](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sandbox/) [temporary](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/temporary/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/demonest-sandbox-builder/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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