view the WP admin page and view the site “normally” at the same time?

  • Very new and very frustrated WP user here.

    I’m actually a coder! But I’m finding the first steps of WP appalling: principally because the documentation (tutorials, etc.) is (IMHO) very bad and usually not up-to-date. I suspect most people get a friend/colleague to show them the WP rudiments. I don’t have that option.

    Anyway, one question (forgive the incorrect terminology, if applicable): when I have my site open in “admin mode” (i.e. with the “W” in a circle icon at the top left), is there any way to display the site normally, i.e. as an average visitor would see it, in the same browser? I use Firefox, and even when I have two windows, logging out of the admin page (in order to see the site from an ordinary visitor’s viewpoint) in one window also logs me out in any other Firefox windows. So I have to use e.g. Chrome for viewing the site as seen by a normal visitor… is there any way round this?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • I sometimes use the Edge Browser or Firefox and then Chrome just as you do but I’ve found using two physical monitors with one browser on the first monitor and the second with the other helps me quite a bit… The different browsers make it easy to log in to admin with one and look at things as a visitor in the other when needed.

    If you had a real high-resolution widescreen monitor you could put them both side by side on that but the physical monitors just feel right to me. Moving my head to the one monitor or the other seems to help me focus on what I’m doing.

    I actually use three monitors quite often!

    I also have a cheap Chromebook that I run in tandem with whatever machine I’m using then I use Chrome’s ‘cast’ ability to push a new Browser window or tab from the machine I’m using to the Chromebook. Cuts down the clutter and when I’m caught up I can switch positions to follow up on items or double-check my work.

    I’m a little stuck in my ways and think the answer to a lot of issues for me is to run another computer, a second monitor, and even a second location. Moving from one desk to a table or even outside on the deck really works for me.

    Find what works for you from the above but the different (dissimilar) browsers are one of my favorite tools.

    Thread Starter mrodent

    (@mrodent)

    Helpful reply, thanks.

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