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Want Post Preview Back in WordPress?

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If you’re like me and prefer having an inline Post Preview, instead of having to go through the extra step of clicking preview>> and having it open in another window. There is a little bit of code you need to add to WordPress on your Host Server.

You have to be comfortable working in the background code of your post.php, but it is fairly simple to do. Go to the wp-admin folder on your server, find your post.php and copy & paste* the code below.

Here’s the steps you will need to know…

  • Open up your post.php file from your wp-admin directory.
  • Navigate to approximately half way down and find the following line of code:
  • include('edit-form-advanced.php');

  •  Directly underneath that line, add the following code:
  • ?>
    <div id='preview' class='wrap'>
    <h2 id="preview-post"><?php _e('Post Preview (updated when post is saved)'); ?></h2>
    <iframe src="<?php echo clean_url(apply_filters('preview_post_link', add_query_arg('preview', 'true', get_permalink($post->ID)))); ?>" width="100%" height="600" ></iframe>
    </div>
    <?php

  • Save your changes to post.php.

There, Done… Simple, huh?

Now you can view a preview of the post you are working on without going through all those extra steps. (Remember, you Still have to Save and Continue Editing for viewing)

*If Copy & Paste doesn’t work, you may need to actually TYPE the code, but it does work.

Source: Will Lee

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