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Will some flavor of comment previewing ever be a standard feature in WordPress? Most other popular weblog software has it and I’m quite disappointed it’s not included with 2.0 (AFAICT).

I always dread posting stylized comments on WP weblogs without the ability to preview how they’ll be displayed. Or am I missing something that already provides that functionality? Thanks for any suggestions.

Big thanks for that AllowOverride tip, sophistry! I struggled too long with that last night without success but with your example and an updated “Options … SymLinksIfOwnerMatch” directive I finally got it working on my Mac OS X system.

Original directives:

Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None


Updated directives:

Options Indexes MultiViews SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride FileInfo Options


Thanks for confirming it works before I tackle integrating it using the sparse instructions, including a comment from Kelson on Chris’ site. It already looks like WP will be a fun “trial by fire” learning experience.

Thanks for the suggestions. I noticed Live Preview last night but it didn’t seem WP 1.5-ready.

This is my first serious attempt to set up a weblog and I’m not familiar with all the components of WP yet. I tinkered with some 1.2 releases a few months ago before getting distracted by other projects. A couple weeks ago I tried one of the newer 1.5 nightly builds, then decided to wait for an official release. So, it’s great timing that it showed up a few days ago and I’m glad to be on the upward curve of its evolution even if some 1.2-based features are available.

It’s rare to find comment previewing on WP blogs so I’m wondering if comment previewing will ever become a more “mainstream” WP (1.5?) feature that makes it popular to enable. Maybe trackback/pingback to one’s own blog is a reason previewing doesn’t get more attention? Why I’m asking is because without previewing it feels like I’m losing a feature that’s been essential for me on forums (along with post editing) as I embark on the journey into blogging. I’m certainly open to the possibility of making it something I won’t miss, but right now I feel crippled without it and thought other folks might appreciate that feature on my future blog. That’s all. ??

Lack of comment previewing is a major disappointment for me with WordPress 1.5. Personally, I’m inhibited from posting comments on a blog when I can’t preview them first. Maybe it’s just not considered an important feature in the blogging community? Any enlightenment about this is appreciated.