Spiffy Post Preview

Thanks to Mark post preview is much spiffier. After you save a draft, you get a full preview of what it will actually look like on your site. Here’s a peek.

Post Preview

34 thoughts on “Spiffy Post Preview

  1. What would be really cool is if you could find a way to make it a live preview without the need to save a draft in order to see it.

    Very cool regardless, though. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to edit posts after the fact because of spelling mistakes, mislinks and forgetting to close a tag.

  2. This is built into WP 1.6. There might be some plugins that add this for 1.5.x, I’m not sure.

    If you have a wp.com site, this is already live.

  3. Yargh, live preview would be awesome, still looks fine and dandy as is. 🙂 No more keeping another tab open and swapping between for me. 😀

  4. Well, frames and iframes are tools. They get a bad rap, like tables, because they are frequently misused. I can’t, however, think of a better way to get this functionality. What people wanted was a view of their post exactly as it would appear on the blog. The iframe gives us that window.

    As for live preview… the problem is that we would have to save the post as a draft before we could update the iframe, which might be undesirable. Also, you can’t exactly be typing and looking at a live preview at the same time… it’s rather a back-and-forth process (which is why I created the edit/preview links for jumping between).

    My thoughts on the feature are here.

  5. Yargh, live preview would be awesome, still looks fine and dandy as is. No more keeping another tab open and swapping between for me.

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