"Preview Changes" goes to current page instead of preview

  • So, I was going to test out something on my employer’s website (specifically, on a page that already existed) and wanted to preview the changes to see how they looked before I made the changes live. However, instead of taking me to a preview of those changes, it just took me to the page I was editing (no alteration in the URL as compared to the link I would give someone to visit the page). Even when I hover over the button, my browser shows the link as going to the live version of the page I’m working on.

    I don’t remember this being a problem before (but I also usually don’t preview changes because I’m fairly confident in my HTML skills) but it’s here now and fairly troublesome. It does work for new pages.

    I’ve already mentioned it to our (overworked) IT dept but none of them can replicate the error. It might be that they don’t quite understand what I meant but the error is still there either way. Does anyone know why it’s doing this?

    In case it’s browser related, I’m using Firefox 9.0.1 on Windows XP.

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  • Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    – resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting via Settings -> Permalinks. If this works, then review Using_Permalinks before setting a custom permalink structure back up again.

    Thread Starter illy-chan

    (@illy-chan)

    See, here’s the thing, I don’t have access to that kind of functionality (nor would I be allowed to do any of that stuff if I did and IT definitely won’t do it). However, no one else has this problem and I don’t have it if I log in on a different computer (same browser).

    I do suspect that my computer is going to suffer from a hardware failure soon(ish) but could that really effect WordPress’s functionality like that?

    Your computer has nothing to do with your WordPress site – which is hosted on a remote server. And somebody has to do this stuff – whether it’s you or IT – or your boss’ site may continue to suffer from this problem. The steps I described above are basic troubleshooting.

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