I don't have permission to preview posts

  • I have a plugin keeping my site on maintenance mode while I change themes. I am trying to transfer the old site and make all the tweaks with the new theme, and continue to receive the error message when I click on preview post that I do not have permission to preview. I am the only admin/user for my site. I received this error message prior to installing and switching themes but lived with it.

    Thanks for any help.

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  • Thread Starter erinmidwife

    (@erinmidwife)

    Interesting. Let me look at those links.

    Curiously, if I click lost my password, and then login, without clicking on any of the links and actually changing my password, I have success. This has happened twice in a row now.

    Otherwise, still not able to log-in.

    Thread Starter erinmidwife

    (@erinmidwife)

    Not really getting anywhere with the login issue. I am still intermittently able to login buy doing the password change hack I previously mentioned (and not clicking through to actually change the password).

    If you have any suggestions for why I still can’t preview posts I am all ears!

    Thank you!

    When i visit your domain erinmidwife.com and look at your source code, all of your urls still have the fatcow username alias erinmidwifecom.fatcow.com in them, and erinmidwife.com/wp-admin is still redirecting to erinmidwifecom.fatcow.com/wp-login.php.

    I wouldn’t expect that to be a normal thing. Your site addresses in the WordPress dashboard, and in your source code, should just be your domain name, not the fatcow username alias. If those are anything other than https://www.erinmidwife.com, then start with that. Make sure there’s no redirect/username-alias weirdness in your .htaccess file as well.

    Solve that problem, and the other issues will probably fall in line. Maybe your hosts support staff can help you sort out what’s going on with the “erinmidwifecom.fatcow.com” issue in the urls on your live site.

    Thread Starter erinmidwife

    (@erinmidwife)

    Yes, thanks!

    I’m wondering if I uploaded my WordPress files into the wrong place in my Fatcow control panel. Can you tell I have no idea what I am doing? But I think you’re on to it. I’m going to take a look over there and see if I can uninstall/re-install WP into the right file and avoid the redirect.

    Fatcow’s site says all users get the .fatcow url. Doesn’t make sense to me. No other host does it that way.

    This is from fatcow.

    The URL https://YourUsername.fatcow.com is assigned to your account when it is created.

    When you purchase or add a domain name, we add that domain to your account as a domain pointer, or alias, to direct traffic to your Website. Both your domain name (www.YourDomainName.com) and https://YourUsername.fatcow.com show the same content.

    While registering and using a domain name is optional, it provides you with a more marketable address for your site.

    Moderator Sergey Biryukov

    (@sergeybiryukov)

    WordPress Dev

    Fatcow’s site says all users get the .fatcow url. Doesn’t make sense to me. No other host does it that way.

    I think that’s actually a common practice. A lot of hosting providers offer a test domain, so that you can starting working on your site without buying your own domain right away.

    Not really getting anywhere with the login issue. I am still intermittently able to login buy doing the password change hack I previously mentioned (and not clicking through to actually change the password).

    If the problem still persists, try logging in via https://erinmidwifecom.fatcow.com/wp-login.php and changing the site URL in General Settings (both WordPress Address and Site Address) to https://erinmidwife.com.

    That should resolve the post preview issue as well.

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