Comments on: WordPress Tips: Previewing Your Post in WordPress

By: cweddell

cweddell — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:38:04 +0000

How I miss the Preview Frame, but then I stumbled across this plugin while updating batch categories plugin (which is good for tag management too!!). Looks like the Preview Frame is back.

By: Mittineague

Mittineague — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:43:07 +0000

I agree with the option as a solution. I doesn’t seem like it’d be that much work to add a “preview in frame” to the ACP. Personally, often I don’t have the patience for anything more comlex than publish and then edit. And that can aggravate too (I miss the preview).

By: Otto

Otto — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:06:15 +0000

New windows don’t equal whole new browser processes.

In Firefox: Ctrl-N = New Window. Do that, then look at the Task Manager. You’ll only see one instance of firefox.exe. It really takes up no more memory than a new tab does.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:17:21 +0000

If we had the option to turn on and off the preview, then things would be nice, especially for those dependent upon them, like me. As perfect as I am, I often don’t get it right the first time – nor the second.

As for opening windows, which are total versions of your browser running, it eats up RAM like crazy. Why should I run two or three browser programs when one should do the job? Even though it’s fairly new laptop, I have constant memory problems with multiple versions of Internet Explorer or Firefox running, along with the rest of the programs I run at the same time.

I’m still stuck with the tab game, which I hate.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:50:10 +0000

I don’t mean a “live” preview. That would be annoying. I’d prefer something like a button that launches a javascript/css “modal dialog.” Kind of like Lightbox.

By: Otto

Otto — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:34:29 +0000

Even worse, the AJAX will just slow things down as you type instead of slowing the whole page load.

Some of us don’t need previews. I never use them, for example. I just get it right the first time.

Anyway, whatever, as long as you can *turn it off*. That’s what annoyed me so much about the iframe preview. There was no option to disable it. Every upgrade I had to go rehack the core code to remove the thing. Annoying, that is.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:24:00 +0000

How about a live, AJAX, preview instead? A preview box that shows what your post looks like without having to hit the “Save” button.

By: Otto

Otto — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:28:02 +0000

Regarding having too many tabs: Organize better. You can have new Windows too you know, each with their own set of tabs.

By: Otto

Otto — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:26:34 +0000

The removal of the preview iframe was one of the greatest things ever. Having it take forever to load up the edit post page just because of a preview (which I never ever actually used) was ridiculous to begin with.

Major +1 to the preview in a new window/tab. Much preferred.

By: extremusmilitis

extremusmilitis — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:53:09 +0000

For me, using tabs is easier to handle this
We can edit our post, and then just reloading the other tab to see the changes