Display menu items of unpublished nodes to users without "Administer Content" permission I have a content editor who is building out a section. All the nodes are yet unpublished. The problem is unpublished nodes are not displayed in a menu. While this is correct behavior with a user viewing a site, the editing experience is lacking in that way. How can I build a representation of a menu of unpublished items?
I ended up using a module called Menu view unpublished which is a ...

Small module that allows users to view menu links to unpublished nodes.
The menu system from Drupal core hides menu links that link to nodes
that are unpublished. This modules provides a permission that undoes
this behavior, but only if the user has access to view the
(unpublished) node.