Preview Draft doesn't work

  • I’ve just moved a WP site to a new domain on a different host. Most things are working, but previewing a draft post does not. I get a 404 “page not found” error. If I publish the post, I can view it with no problem. But if I then change it back to draft status and try to preview it, I get the 404 error again.

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  • Thread Starter David R. Woolley

    (@drwool)

    More information:

    It seems that this problem probably has something to do with WordPress forgetting that I have admin access. I discovered that using Internet Explorer, the preview problem goes away (I normally use Firefox, sometimes Safari or Chrome.) But here’s another clue: when logged in with IE, the dark gray top bar saying “Howdy, admin” appears. I’m not seeing that top bar when using my other browsers.

    Another related issue is that when using Firefox or Safari, after entering my admin userid & password on the login page I usually get cycled back to the login page again. Sometimes if I repeat this two or three times it will eventually take me to the WP admin panel.

    Figuring this seems like a cookie problem, I deleted cookies from my WP site from Firefox, but that hasn’t changed anything.

    I manage several other WP sites and none of them exhibit this behavior. I’ve never had trouble logging in as admin with any of them, nor have I had any problem previewing posts.

    Thread Starter David R. Woolley

    (@drwool)

    Problem solved! (I think.)

    In the site’s General Settings, the Site Address had a www. in front of the URL, and the WordPress Address did not. I removed the www from the Site Address so it matches the WordPress Address, and that seems to have resolved both problems.

    Wow – my toolbar and previews were totally gone and just deleting the www. helped – Thank you!

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