I’m not sure how it happened, but for those of you waiting to upgrade to WordPress 2.2 - you might want to wait a bit longer. The post preview that you know and love and have come to rely on to proof your posts prior to publishing has been changed. The post preview option isn’t even available until after you “save and continue editing” (even with the auto save feature), and then you notice a hyperlink to preview that opens up in a new window.
This, in my own humble opinion, was a big mistake.
These are the changes that were made in the core WordPress files. I am going to attempt to modify the code to see if I can’t get the iframe preview pane back - and I’ll let you know how that goes.
The crazy thing is, in the 2.2 list of changes this wasn’t even a suggestion. I can’t find any mention of it at all. In fact, what was mentioned was a request (here) to put the jump link to the preview pane back on the write post page. (Remember that?) If you’ll scroll down through the replies to that ticket (which reads “fixed”), you’ll see that it went completely south, the initial ticket wasn’t fixed - the whole function was changed to something entirely different than the original ticket requested.
I’ve opened up a topic on the Wordpress-Extend-Ideas forum to put the preview back inline and allow users the option to turn it on or off. You can view the thread here, and if you’re so inclined, please leave a comment on the topic to let the head guru’s know whether or not this feature is important to you. If you’re a member of the wordpress support forum, your login info works here. If you’re not, consider registering - it’s a beneficial give and take community of WordPress users.
UPDATE: I’ve made the changes to the core wordpress files and got my post preview pane back. If you’ve installed 2.2 and want the fix, here are the files:
WordPress 2.2 wp-admin post preview fix files
The files are edit-form-advanced.php, edit-page-form.php, post.php and page.php. You can save these to your hard drive and overwrite the files in your wp-admin/ directory. Please note, this fix is for WordPress 2.2 only. All I did was modify the code to restore the post preview pane according to the changeset that removed it. I made no other changes to these files.
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URL: http://stevenlichen.com/2007/05/23/wordpress-22-strange-change/
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May 23rd, 2007 at 7:23 pm
You took my entire post word for word and made it your own entry? Color me confused, I’m not seeing any quote marks anywhere. Thanks for giving me credit, at the very least, since it is my post in its entirety.
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Hello Leanne,
I am not claiming your post as mine. Being a teacher, I hate plagiarism, of any kind.
Actually I do have the link back to your post at the footer of this entry:
Source: Artist by Nature Blog : Original Oil Paintings & Art by Leanne Wildermuth » WordPress 2.2 Strange Change
If that still doesn’t meet your rules, I can delete this post.
I’m a happy subscriber of your blog, keep up the great work
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Leanne, now the source has been put both at the beginning and the end of this entry. Hope that is the proper way of quoting your post.
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Thanks, Steven - it just threw me off to see my exact post title, and then not see any quotation marks at all. Usually when I’m reading a post that’s been sourced or pinged, it’s quite obvious because the blogger will put it all in quotes.
I appreciate the modification.
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:34 pm
I should thank you, Leanne, for the awakening call of putting sources more noticeable to avoid the hint of plagiarism.
Please do drop by often as I will start writing about life in China — perhaps that’ll be of interest to you.
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:37 pm
One more thing, even if I do use “block-quote”, the Theme I’m using won’t display any quotation marks. It’ll just shrink the width of the text a little bit.